Daughter 2 discovered that I’ve been using her hairspray, at same time as daughter 1 discovered that I’ve been using her perfume. Big stress. However, this is pay back for daughter 2 stealing my lipstick and daughter 1 using my cleanser. Karma. All this is inevitable when 6 females share a house. Living here is sometimes reminiscent of living in student digs and I’m sure step daughter would agree, that life in this madhouse prepared her well for university.
All daughters share clothes, as they are fairly similar sizes. Of course, while at its best, this is really quite sweet to see, the majority of the time this is the source of most of the anger in our house. Daughter 1 was given a coat by her cousin. The same as daughter 2’s. Daughter 2 was mortified when they both had it on to go to school. You cannot wear that coat! Daughter 2 exclaimed. An argument ensued, which made tight war look like toy soldiers.
The best feeling in the world is when a teenage daughter tells you that you look nice (except when it’s spoilt with the addition of, ‘lend us a tenner’). So, I was very excited when this morning, daughter 1 asked to borrow my new top to wear to school. Make sure you tell everyone it’s your mum’s, I said. Yeah right. Did you get any comments on the top? I asked her this evening. Someone said it looks like something her mum would wear, she replied. Ah well, I sighed to myself, I had 10 hours of feeling young again and at this stage in life, I’ll take it.