Funny Story: Cousins :)

Lipstick. Isn't that what every 8 and 9 year old girl loves? I would say that I loved it then... to quite an extent actually.

I was 8 and my cousin Samantha was about 9 years old. We decided one day to play a prank that I found in an American Girl Doll magazine. A prank that we thought was hilarious then. :) We were going to take all of my stuffed animals and strap them into my car. Since my family was home and we didn't want them to see us, we wanted a disguise. The best disguise we could come up with involved lots and lots of lipstick.

We went to the Bonus room with some lipstick that I had gotten from a little makeup kit. We took turns doing eachother's "make-up". It wasn't quite the make-up that you probably think I'm talking about though. I am talking about a face covered in different shades of lipstick! We put as much on as we possibly could hoping that we would not get caught and we would not get in trouble. Then we added our final touches: wigs, skirts over our pants, another shirt, and a few accesories.

We tiptoed downstairs with an armload of stuffed animals. As soon as we made it, my mom sees us and asked the dreaded question, "What are you girls up to?" Of course we could not lie. So, we told her everything.

Since our little "scheme" had been ruined, we made the best out of our once in a lifetime chance to have a lipstick coated face. We danced and skipped around my house showing anybody that we could our "disguises".

What does this all mean? What did I learn from this?

That you should never expect to get away with something when your parents are right down stairs.



This is a picture of Samantha and I with our "disguises" on! :)