Reposting of Thats For Girls

Having been raised in a family of 6 boys and 3 girls, plus two stressed out parents, I have found that I have a very unique outlook on what is healthy interaction among siblings. My husband on the other hand has only 2 sisters, one younger and one older. He spends most of his day wondering why our girls fight so much with each other and every time they make a stupid decision he is convinced they will turn out to be pregnant teen druggies. I keep trying to tell him our girls are just stupid kids not pre-pubescent hoodlums, but his fears always seem to get the best of him in the end.

The other day, i was very sick and while hubby was out working i was trying to keep the tornadoes i call children from destroying our house. As dinner approached i began cleaning the kitchen so we could have pans and plates for our dinner, and asked the girls to watch the 1 year old. Everything seemed to be going well as i was cleaning, and i heard no fighting as I began cooking, so i assumed that everything was relatively OK. Well I hear the sink in the bathroom turn on and just as i was about to go see what the girls were doing in the bathroom, Hubby comes in the front door. I guess my first mistake was being comfortable with the hours of silence from 3 smart, but stupid kids, the second was asking hubby to check and see what the girls were doing so i could finish making dinner.

His cry of “What the heck happened in here?,” told me that I was going to see how much destruction could be accomplished in silence. I reluctantly dragged my self down the hall to the bathroom door to see the one year old sitting fully clothed in the running sink and covered head to toe in dark burgundy lipstick, the 7 year old was using conditioner to style the 5 year olds hair and the five year old was applying liquid eyeliner to her arms to give herself “tattoos.”

When the girls finally processed the question that had burst from their father’s lips the 5 year old replied, “What? makeup is for girls, not for Dads. you don’t need it.” The bizarre jump in kid logic was too much for their father and he walked out complaining that his girls were going to be in jail before they were 16, because they have no respect for the property of others. i on the other hand did not help the situation as I started the girls in the process of cleaning up, when I said “Yes makeup is for girls, and cleaning is for children. Now get busy.”

To be fair they did an ok job of cleaning themselves, but the 1 year old still has a pink tinge to her skin except in her armpits and back where she couldn’t get the lipstick on herself. notice i didn’t say clean diaper area. When i took off her diaper i found she had managed to get a chunk of lipstick in there too and smear it around. The girls are now grounded from makeup and their daddy is terrified that his wild girls will rebel any day now. to which I say “rebelling is for girls…”