Raising Sisters

Growing up I had only one sibling my Brother who was six years older than I. It felt like I was pretty much an only child with our age difference and my parents will tell you it felt like they had sometimes started over again baby wise. My Mom struggle with fertility. They always say it's a miracle I am here. Ha! Though having one sibling was great and as we grew older we became very close but when I was younger I wanted more siblings. I really really wanted a Sisters....badly. I use to pray for one but I knew that would obviously never come true. I am okay with that because I have a pretty awesome Brother who has scared all the bad boyfriends away so I could meet and fall in love with the guy I am married to today. 

Now flash forward to today. I arrive home after picking up my older two Daughters from their school. As I'm unbuckling my youngest daughter out of her car seat I notice she had made her self dolled up with some glitter lip gloss. I don't wear glitter lip gloss mind you. It's more of a tween or teenager thing I suppose. I am still learning since I have been out of that loop for some time now. My first thought was "oh no big sissy is going to be unhappy when she sees you wearing her glitter lip gloss." I lean over and whisper to my youngest as I'm still getting her out of the car, " Did you get into big sissy's lip gloss before we left?" She knew she was caught and tried to ignore the question with a slight yet unnoticeable nod. So I asked her again so she could have a chance to be honest with me. She answered softly. "yes."

At that Mom moment I wasn't quit sure how to approach it. Ignore it? Or let my oldest daughter know before she walks into her room because the my guess is my youngest probably left evidence. Therefore I told her before she walked into the house. She started to get upset. I quickly explained  that her littlest Sister is only three years old and she was intrigued by her neat things in her bedroom. I also explained how little Sisters look up to their big Sisters and want to sometimes be like them. Phew....that totally changed the direction and made the glitter lip gloss situation all better.

Later that night during our bedtime routine I was getting pajamas out for our youngest. I noticed she had stolen her oldest Sisters smelly lotion and put it in her drawer. I laughed so hard in my head. I took it out of the drawer and asked , "Helen did you take this from Ev's room?" She explained why she needed smelly lotion like her big Sister. Again I explained that we can't just take our Sisters things because they don't belong to us. She gave it back and I gave her one of my little lotions to put in her drawer instead.

Once the three girls were tucked in bed ever so snug I sat by my Husband out in the living room like we typically do to gather some time for us. I end up telling him this must be what its like having Sisters. They take your stuff and hide it. I know which Daughter of ours is going to be the culprit of stealing clothes from her Sisters when their teenagers....our youngest. Ha! And even though I didn't have Sisters growing up God has blessed me with three Daughters and now I get to raise them and watch how Sisterhood works.