Melting Moments
by Rachel Ragg
When my seven-year-old daughter said “Mummeee…” on Friday night, my heart sank.
The children broke up from school last Wednesday, so we had had what felt like several light years to get ready for her Beavers trip to a local fire station. So at 5.55 pm, I was of course losing my keys and fighting with my hair straighteners.
“What do you want?” I asked suspiciously.
“You said you were going to iron my Beavers scarf.”
“I did?”
“Yes. You promised last Friday.”
My heart sank even further. I did promise, and I had failed to deliver. Again.
“I know I promised, but we haven’t got time now,” I said.
“But you said you would iron the folds in. I won’t get the Smartest Beaver award without ironed folds.”
Well. There was only one solution. The hair straighteners.
“Right. Ironed folds are what you will have,” I declared.
Only they weren’t. Why doesn’t it say in the hair straightener instructions “not to be used on polyester Beavers scarves”?
Fortunately the fire brigade did not have to cancel our Beavers trip as a result of the scarf-meets-hair-straightener scenario. But if my hair develops green and blue polyester stripes, I will know why.
Did she win though?
Um… no.
I always do my kids’ iron-in name labels with the hair straighteners; they get in difficult to reach places and means I don’t have to find the iron….
Now I hadn’t thought of that one. I tend to use marker pen, despite maternal resolutions to enjoy the whole name-tape thing…
Hair straighteners? Why in heaven’s name to people blessed with curls and kink iron them all out! My limp tresses were sizzling dangerously last week as a friend, armed with an Ann Summers-shaped tool, tried vainly to give them bounce.
Ah, but I was using them to insert curl. My hair could not be straighter, but I have no curling devices. I was talked into it by a very glam friend who used straighteners to great curling effect. Funnily enough, I still don’t look like her.
It’s so inspiring to know that there are other ‘normal’ Mum’s out in the world who do these things – I only have one 3-year-old but have still achieved many “I don’t think I wanted to do that” moments in the last few years…
Hahaha, excellent. My son’s always saying “You said you’d….” about things I either agreed to do when I wasn’t listening, or things I have forgotten to do.
I had a nasty feeling that the post was going to end up with not needing to go to the fire station, because the fire engine had to come to your house instead.
Not this time, thank goodness!
Be advised that some hair staighteners are really damaging to the hair follicles that is why we should avoid them. ““”
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They seem to be bad for polyester follicles too!