Special Treatment

Summer has already afforded us some very fun opportunities. Owing the fact that Aubrey decided she was bored five minutes after she woke up on the first day of summer, we've had to get creative giving her things to do. She's already read like 20 books. Some of them she's reading a second time after just finishing them. She's done lots of odd cleaning jobs for me. Very willingly, I might add. She's made a lot of dinners, and desserts and breakfasts. She's done math practice. She's played outside, she's played inside, she's played in water, she's played with friends, and Andrew, and chickens. She's done crafts.

But! Then she had a brilliant idea. (Her words not mine, and might I say, most of her ideas, according to her, are pretty brilliant.) This one, I would have to agree.

Here, I present to you...



Aubrey's Salon. She ran it independently for a day or so, and then hired on some extra help in the form of her friend Isabelle.



She's a very confident salon owner. And she should be. Aubrey's Salon offered manicures, pedicures, massages, and hairdos. They were so high tech, they even had a credit card scanner, see?



And a toilet headquarters, in case you needed to use the facilities.



They were even concerned about the sanitary conditions, which is why this sign was placed near the entrance to Aubrey's Salon. (You can also see, if you read the fine print, they were concerned about being paid).



To top off their unparalleled customer friendliness, they had a Little Kid Area, with markers, paint pens, and paper, in case you were visiting Aubrey's Salon with children in tow.



I had my fingernails painted a supremely summery shade of orange. I decided to forego the pedicure, but I did get a lovely and relaxing water bath foot massage. Afterwards, I had a percussion massage, which consisted of me laying on the tile floor in the bathroom and Aubrey slapping and pounding on my back. And she did throw in a couple of spankings for no extra charge.

And, that's not all! They did my hair, too! This, you see, was a real treat because, most curly haired ladies, such as myself, do not comb through their hair very often, because that lends itself to extreme frizz and what is commonly referred to as the Pyramid head hairdo. But no, Aubrey's Salon was expert in such things and so comb away at my curls, they did. Only in the back though. And used about half a dozen clips of various colors and configurations. They results were really quite wonderful. So wonderful in fact, no picture can do it justice. But just for fun, here's one taken by the salon owner herself.



You can see here, this first rate establishment also provided every customer with their choice of gift upon exit. You can see, Isabelle's mother got a toothbrush. I personally chose a fruit roll up, but, I ate it, so it's not in the picture.

I don't mean to brag, but I'm pretty sure that me and Megan were Aubrey's Salon's two best clients. (Except for maybe Grandma who was their only other client). You know, mothers of the owners I think get special treatment. Because we were treated so very extra special. You can only hope that there might be an Aubrey's Salon coming to a city near you.