Ginger's Unite!

Oh NO.. a ginger in the tub!!

I was reading a blog (4Hens&aRooster) the other day. Mother Hen had posted about her daughter being dubbed by classmates as a Ginger.  When I was growing up, I had such a hard time, but it was mostly from family. Family being the older aunts and uncles, grandparents and such. The kids in the family didn't really tease me. I had all the nicknames, that I hated, and what made it even worse is that I was the only "totally ginger" in the family. I was the only child in our family that had red hair. Straight up redhead!

My brother and I, he.. brown.. me ginger. lol

Don't mess with a ginger, she will poke your eye out!

 In grade school I didn't really get teased.. or hell, it has been to long for me to remember. So, if I did, I wasn't scarred for life. :D

If the hair doesn't scare you, the teeth should!

It wasn't until jr high that I started noticing the LOOKS. I can't even remember anyone else in my jr high having red hair. I think it kept me from having boyfriends. I know I am not monkey butt ugly, so I don't think it was looks. I had a good amount of friends, so it wasn't my personality. It had to be the red hair. High School wasn't much different. Through out high school I had maybe four boyfriends, and the last and longest one was a ginger also. Funny how that worked out. That little romance changed me forever though. To this day, I would not date a man with red hair. I seriously think it is because of the last high school boyfriend thing. It went south and my attractions to gingers went with it. Not that I don't think gingers are beautiful or handsome.. just can't date them.

If we had had kids, they would have been gingers ~ definately.

I really started realizing how special being a ginger was, when I was in my 20's. To bad we have to go through all of the other stuff before we realize how lucky we are. I have met women who would kill to have the color of hair I had when I was growing up. Hell, I wish my hair was that color now. Damn old age, damn you to hell! Thank goodness for Sally's Beauty supplies, I can still be pretty close to my natural color. Can I get an Hell Yeah!!

It seems to me that in this day and age, that Ginger's are more sought after, natural ones, even more so. You have actresses such as Julianna Moore, Bryce Dallas Howard, Christina Hendricks & Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley-Harry Potter), just to name a few.

I guess now I am rambling, so I will wrap this up. Some things from Mother Nature are a gift. When we are young, we sometimes don't realize how lucky we are to be blessed with these precious gifts. It takes a few years and learning to love ourselves, then we realize how lucky we are.

Gingers are special. We are a rare group of people.

WE ARE SPECIAL!

Please embrace that red hair and those freckles.

Gingers Unite!

(And remember, the next time someone calls you "Carrot-Top" tell them,

Carrot Tops are green ~ Einstein!

Terri .. a Ginger

and proud of it!