So my make-up won't fall over

As the third daughter of a third child, I feel I understand our third daughter rather well. Our third daughter has sisters who are 9 and 11 years older than she, and I have sisters who are 8.5 and 9.75 years older than me. So, when you're the little one and your older sisters are teenagers and doing the things teenagers do, you try so hard to be like them.

One way our youngest tries to be like her older sisters is by having "make-up" of her own.

All three of our daughters have gone through a stage where they have tied things up. They take shoes laces, bathrobe ties, and other assorted items to tie things up. Most often it's been to tie things up to a closet door, a door handle, etc. Our youngest has tied up her Barbies so that they could fly and do flips and such. But a recent tying event was to tie up all the drawers on her dresser. Of course this didn't occur at the most convenient time, considering her many of her clothes are kept in those drawers. And considering she ties really tight knots.

This might have been something that would have elicited a rather harsh word from me were she not my third daughter. So, wanting to understand what would make this child do such a thing I inquired of her why she did it.

She told me she tied up her dresser drawers so "my make-up wouldn't fall over." You see she has some discards of lipsticks and eye shadows and she wanted to have them all set-up on her dresser, "like the big girls do in their room." Every time someone opened a dresser drawer the make-up tumbled down.

Now there's a shim under one leg of the dresser making it more stable and it doesn't shake when a drawer is opened. Now there's access to the clothes in the drawers, and the make-up is able to sit up on the dresser.