A Confession and an Announcement

I have a serious confession to make.

I'm not really a blonde. I'm a natural born redhead. Okay, actually, natural born strawberry blonde.

My mother has red hair. My Grandfather had red hair. My Great-Grandfather had red hair, and even 3 more generations up had red hair. Our son Preston has red hair. My younger brother has red hair.

I have been putting blonde highlights in my hair since...hmmm...

(You know it's been a while when you can't remember).

Well, I'm here to tell you that the last time I put blonde highlights in my hair was last June. I remember because it was right before we went on a 3 day camping trip over to the Olympic Peninsula and my hair looked particularly light and summery in all of those pictures (as seen below).

Here is me today:

That is my natural color. At least, the first 5 inches of it.

It's getting to the point where I either need to do an all over dye to bring it all back to strawberry blonde, or I need to put more blonde hightlights in it.

But I can't. I won't.

I'm stuck with roots for the time being because...

Surprise! It's our Christmas surprise baby! (we found out Dec 10th)

And there you are.

A very good reason why one should avoid using hair dye and why I now have 5 inch roots of red hair.

And as for the rest of this story...I will entertain you with another time.

Baby #2 is due August 20th. You can follow my pregnancy journal on The Belly Diaries for all the nitty gritty female info.