The Most ROCKING Head-Shaving Party Ever!!

Oh did we have fun last night! We laughed, we cried, (OK, only I cried), we ate lots of sugary treats and made a big mess of Northwest Children's School. So I've gotten a"head" of myself. I'll start at the beginning.

This is me with hair.  I decided to make a party out of a potentially bummer part of going through cancer:  LOSING HAIR.  We had the party at NW Children's School here in Arlington.  My friend Cathy owns the school and Tari is a teacher there, and they were kind enough to let us completely take over Tari's classroom for the night.  Tari's friends Amanda and Tyler, who work at Salon Chirella, volunteered their time and expertise shaving and providing pink hair extentions to anyone who wanted them.  They did this on Tyler's birthday, which was so kind of them both!

This got a little emotional for me, more than a few tears rolled down my cheeks here. 

It was over pretty quickly, then it was Trudy's turn.

I had maybe a little too much fun giving her a comb-over, and she was such a good sport about it!

Trudy's husband, Jeremy had to help a little too.

Tari getting shaved by Cathy.

Susan is getting her hair chopped for Locks of Love. (Trudy did too, but I don't have a pic)

Well, here are the new and improved Mower Sisters!  I still can't believe this.

Angry at the world.

The 5 bald ladies: Susan, Trudy, Me, Tari, and Jamie.  I felt so SUPPORTED!  I'm glad to not have to gone through this alone.  Doesn't my leg up make it look like we're having fun?!  Always works.

We surprised Tyler with a birthday cake and a loud rousing version of "happy birthday to you!"  I'm sure he was exhausted, but he didn't even pause to eat cake.  Too many heads to shave!

Ellie loves feeling my head!  I was worried that she'd be freaked out about it, but she's ok.  I think she likes it!  Poor baby has an ugly scab on her nose.  Alfy's accident.  Couldn't be helped.

Trevor and Travis getting shaved... Well, almost.  Trev had big plans for his head. 

Well, Isaac surprised us all and requested a mohawk!  He was surrounded by a bunch of his friends who were all doing similar things with their hair.  White trash?  Perhaps.  Fun?  Definitely.  I told Isaac he could wear his mohawk to school ONE time, then it was coming off!  ;) 

Yes, Cavin did it too! It was CRAZY last night.  I had no control over what may or may not have happened.

Trev is thinking to himself, "I don't feel PINK enough".

Now, that's better!

What a fun night it was, and there was so much more going on than I had pictures of.  Almost every woman and girl present got pink streaks dyed in their hair, or had pink extrentions put in.  Most of the men and boys ended up either bald or with some sort of pink mohawk style on top.  Probably a million plates of cookies were consumed.  Most of all it was fun being surrounded by friends and family during such an important night for me.  The doctor told me that before my hair falls out on it's own, my scalp would get tender and feel like I just took out a tight pony tail.  Well, my head felt like that all day on Saturday.  Perhaps a little reassurance that this was the right day to do the hair party?