and now you are my new favorite

I always curl my hair.  Well, almost always.  Most days of the week I curl my hair.  But then I laid off the curling iron for a while because it was frying my precious hair.  Then a funny thing started happening: People started telling me I looked thinner.  But the kicker is that I haven’t been losing weight.  Those curls were making my face look fat.  Fantastic.

Yesterday I couldn’t stay away any longer.  I love curly hair!  And so I put lots and lots of gel and leave-in treatment in my hair and curled away.  When I walked into G’s preschool class with bouncy, curly locks a little boy looked right at me and said “I like your hair!”  Yeah, a little boy noticed right away.  His mama trained him right.

“Thank you, Jacob!”  I replied.

“Yeah, it’s awesome!” he said back to me.

And now you are my new favorite child, other than the ones who are of my womb, of course.  And you’ll stay in that spot of distinction until somebody else compliments me.