Shaving your child's head
I can now look back on the events leading up to shaving Colette's head with more clarity. I wrote a blog entry to my husband after it, but I supposed I wanted to do more of a How To post. Here's the thing- it's an impossible topic to write about. So many variables went into such a life changing, and definitively "you have cancer", moment. My thought was that I'd do some light googling, come across this glossy "mom blog" about shaving their child's head, and I'd have all the answers we needed to do this perfectly. No trauma, no looking back in regret, all perfection. What the hell was I thinking? Seriously, I thought surely someone has documented the event with a series of pictures with the soft filters and shot during golden hour. Their blog would say something like "On Sunday we went out for blackberries to prepare our weekly organic smoothies that provide antioxidants that will be the lone source to cure this cancer. We all wore ...
