We got the girls' rooms painted and they are settled back in. The new colors look awesome. We did manage a checkerboard in PS's room by cutting big squares of black contact paper and sticking them on top of the dark purple paint. I'm sure it was 1000 times easier than trying to paint a checkerboard, and it looks really good (and cost $14 for the contact paper!)
PS continues with her pseudo-goth look. Right now she is begging me to let her dye her hair jet-black (from her natural dark brown). She's almost 14 and going into high school. Hair color is not a hill I want to die on, but I wish it weren't black. My stylist said that if she did it, it would be really hard to get out again. Sigh. I promised her a decision by this morning.
TT and SS have a birthday this month and are dying for iPod touches. I refuse to buy them, because I don't think they take care of things well enough, and I think it's too much to spend on a gadget for an 11 year old. But I did tell them that if they can come up with half the money, I would pay the other half as their birthday present.
We'll see if they can do it. They don't have much saved up because they tend to get distracted and spend their money on every bright, shiny object they see. Their current plan is to have a garage sale. I'm glad to see them trying to earn the money--and cleaning out their closets. I hate garage sales though--I'd far rather donate my junk. And I don't think they have enough stuff to get them there. But maybe that plus some birthday money from the grandparents will get them close.
Meanwhile, we're bringing back the Amazing Race/scavenger hunt party that we did for PS a couple of years ago. It was a lot of work, but so much fun. I love planning parties!
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Maybe the kids could ask for donations for the yard sale from neighbors/family? Then they would have more stuff and your friends can get rid of their junk (with curbside service!)
I think you are so awesome to even consider letting PS dye her hair black. I did mine when I was 18 and it NEVER came out, I had to just keep cutting it off as it grew. I am not looking forward to this with my own daughter!
Wow, I think you handled both requests (for hair dye and ipad gadgets) very well! I love that you are making them come up with half the money!
I've been coloring my hair black, using permanent (cheap clarol stuff). It fades back out to dark brown relatively quickly. I just started doing black low lights instead, I think it actually stays in longer and it's less drastic (between black one week and dark brown like a month later).
I love your posts on parenting teens/older kids- I love the inherent adorableness of Landon and Claire at ages 2 and 5, but I also look forward to knowing them more as people (and I'm totally storing all of your solutions and compromises and general "I'm not dying on a hair color hill" attitude for later).
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