The Irish in us all...

I have to do a little venting. Lately just about every time I go into a store someone stops me and says wow where did that red hair come from (meaning Carter's hair). And every time that is happens I think honestly do you not see my hair color. Then they say it is the most unusual color of red, you don't see that bright of color very often. I am not sure how to take that one. I have kind of blown it off because I have been getting it a lot but yesterday just got to me. I went back through my scrapbook and looked at pictures of me and Sean at that age and sure enough our hair is the exact same color as Carter's. Maybe the sunlight makes it a lot brighter I dunno. I had to really stop and think yesterday. I know that it is unusual to see a family of red heads but ya know that is the way it is. It amazes me how many people comment to us when we are all together about how rare we are. Honestly it doesn't bother me I have just come to realize that is what people will always think. We are unique. My mom drilled that into me growing up because ya know us red heads do get a lot of guff. I just have to brace myself for the future because I am sure that everyone of our children will go through the same name calling and teasing as we went through. I have grow to love being a red head, honestly I think I got more complements the older I got! I just hope I can instill that same love for being rare and unique into my children. To help ease my frustration I have been researching some fun facts about us!

Here are some fun facts about Redheads:
1- Less than four percent of the world population has naturally red hair. That is less than two percent in America.
2- Sixty percent of women who dye their hair do so at home. Of them twenty six percent choose to go blonde, twenty seven percent go basic brunette, and thirty percent choose to become redheads. The sale of at home red dye kits has gone up seventeen percent since the year two thousand hit.
3- The color Green tempers red. Look at a color chart. This is why redheads are taught as children to wear lots of green. As if red hair is a shameful state of being.
4- A 2002 study found that redhead are harder to sedate than any other people requiring twenty percent more anesthesia.
5- Redheads don't turn grey. Red hair turned sandy, then white. They are also found to loose their color later in life than people carrying other hair colors.