Make Up

"Mommy, can me and Lyla and Samantha put make up on?"

Where does it COME from?
Do you like make up?
I know 2 people who don't even look like themselves without it. I don't like that.
But I remember loving the stuff as a kid.
And I know I can be downright HOT when I'm all done up & decked out.
But that isn't how I really LOOK.
Ya know?

Where do girls get it from?
It isn't like Julia sees me putting on make up all the time. And it's minimal when I do it. But I guess that she loves purses and all girlie things and it isn't like I wear jewelry or have purses all over the place either.
So the make up thing is fun for them right now, but it's going to be a problem when she's 12.
GAH.
Sometimes I can feel IT happening. The IT that happens when your kids do all the things you wish they didn't do, they want the things you wish they didn't want, and they love all the things that you have a complete disregard for. We were talking about credit cards the other day and mom was here, and CJ said he didn't know what a credit card was. I explained check cards and how that money comes out right now, and that credit cards are different, shop all you want now, pay later, and I must have sounded snotty about it because mom called me on it right away. What kid doesn't love credit cards? I loved it when I got my first ones. Fuck. It's all going to happen no matter what and they will have to walk their own path.

UGH.