We are not girly girls in this house. Nope. I don’t think anyone could really accuse us of dripping with the pink and frilly trappings of femininity. With three females and one male, you might think things would be terribly unbalanced (okay, things are pretty unbalanced, but not terribly unbalanced)—but we all know sports and bands and our way around a toolbox. But, if you were to ask my son he would probably say that our house does have an abundance of a couple items that could be classified as girly—cosmetics and earrings—and I’m sure none of us girls would argue.
Despite our penchant for jeans and sneakers, my teenage daughters and I do share a casual passion for bubble bath, shower gel, fragrant spritzers and scented soaps—not to mention eye shadow, nail polish and lip gloss. Our two upstairs bathrooms are a regular fruit salad of flavors and scents to make any bathing experience a near-culinary delight. I noticed as we were showing off our recent Christmas presents that there were plenty more versions of cranberry, peach, raspberry and vanilla concoctions to add to our already-overflowing collection.
In addition to the creamy cosmetics, we three gals also have more earrings (not to mention necklaces and bracelets) than we could wear in a year—even wearing multiple items at once. We’ve pretty much got every occasion, style and taste covered between the three of us—from gold, diamonds, and silver—to hoops, gems, beads, dangles and even a fine collection of vintage clip-ons. You can probably find at least one pair of earrings in every single room of our house (except maybe my sons room—at least not yet). There’s a lot of borrowing, swapping and downright thievery that goes on when it comes to earrings. It always seems that the perfect earrings for a certain occasion just happen to belong to someone else.
I have to confess that as the trying-not-too-get-too-old-before-my-time single mom of two teenage girls, I definitely reap the rewards and benefit of a house full of cosmetics and earrings! What I can’t figure out is why they’d want to borrow and pilfer mine?