The Most Sincere Form of Flattery My Ever Expanding Patooty.

When my daughter first started raiding my closet several years back, I thought "Oh, how flattering. I'm a cool mom." I've since changed my mind.

I've come to realize, she's doing it so she won't have to dig through piles of clothes in her room (I have enough trouble keeping the rest of the house clean... I'm not cleaning her room for her) to find something to wear. The problem is, she grabs my work clothes.

We basically wear the same size, except for pants. She wouldn't wear mine anyway... I don't care to show my drawers to the public. Not that she does! GG, my daughter, dresses very modestly compared to some girls her age. She covers all the necessary bits, although she does show leg... Lots of leg. For someone who's only 5'5" she has a LOT of leg... Or it seems that way. No, she doesn't grab my pants because, ahem... Of the ever expanding patooty. Mine, not hers. Unfortunately...

GG stands for lil' goth girl. When she was younger she went through a stage of dressing in dark clothing. She's never really cared for bright clothing like some girls. But, I figured she's intelligent (cumulative 4.0 since kindergarten) never in trouble, in church every time the doors open, never gave me the grief my son did... So I pick my battles. She's expressing herself. Leave her be.

As I suspected, it was a stage she was going through. Amen. If I had to see another black "everything" on that child, I was gonna scream. Seriously. Add a little color. Lipstick. Eyeshadow. A T-shirt that has red on it. Something. She just bought a pair of shoes for Homecoming that are very bright and have four different colors on them. Gianni Bini, you are my hero!

And now, she's entered the "lets-raid-Mom's-closet-to-keep from-cleaning-my-room-stage." Not cool. Not cool at all. Now I have nothing to wear. Please tell me I'm not the only mom in this sinking boat?

I honestly don't know where she gets the black is the ONLY color out there. I do have a few shirts and sweaters in colors, and I've recently (well, since the patooty has started expanding to the size of Texas) discovered leopard print. Okay, so I stick to solid colors for the most part. It doesn't mean SHE has to... for goodness sake, she's YOUNG! She's not a crone, yet.