Rachel’s first grey hair

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Rachel got her first grey hair the other day, which is bizarre for a 7 year old, isn’t it?

Actually, Lisa noticed a few weeks ago while brushing her hair for school, but never got around to blogging about it. That’s the thing about this mum/dad blogging malarkey – if you don’t write it down, it’ll get forgotten about. But enough lamenting the forgotten tales of our parenthood…

She came running over to show me this silver strand of hair in the middle of her head. It was bizarre to look at – really strange to see someone so young sprouting grey hair. I’m thinking of nicknaming her the Silver Surfer or something equally grannytastic. Suggestions for nicknames will be gratefully appreciated!

Now for the scandalous part. A few days after the initial discovery, Rachel came running up to me with the offending hair in her hand! Baffled, I asked her how her hair had come out, and she told me her mum had plucked it out. What? All those old wives tales about plucking a grey hair out and two more taking its place?

So this could be the start of an interesting experiment! Will Rachel develop an epidemic amount of grey hair? Will we have to add extra hair dye to the household budget? Watch this space, my friends!