The glitter from the craft table is unbelievable! I try to think of other crafts to entice them. "Lets do play-doh!" "Let's use markers!!!!!" "How about we cover the dining room table with foil and finger paint with shaving cream?" (we've actually done this,...more than once).
No matter what I suggest, it all comes down to glitter. It's all they want! They're addicted!
I give in because they love it so much. Their wild excitement is contagious! GLITTER MANIA! What is it with glitter? Why is it so fun? I think maybe it's because it's sort of taboo. It makes a big mess. When people see it they take in a sharp deep breath, and then "oooooooh gllllliiiiiitter!!!"But....... like I mentioned, it's messy. VERY MESSY! It's bad enough to go to the park, or a play-date, with glitter on my face and in my hair, but to go to a "non-kid" function, as a 31 year old woman, with glitter on my face? It's ridiculous! I look like there is something seriously wrong with me.
Before I leave the house to go somewhere "non-kid", I do the check.....the full 360 circumference in the mirror behind the door. But, it never fails, it's inevitable.....10 minutes into a serious, intelligent, and meaningful conversation, somebody says it, "Um...Susan, is that glitter (on your ear, under your eye) on your nose?" (They don't mean for it to, but it always comes across as sort of condescending. I mean how can anybody take you seriously with glitter on your nose? I don't care how brilliant your contribution to the conversation. You look like a dweeb!)
(sigh) "Yes it is."
I can't escape it. I just have to except it. For the next five (10? - you don't think,....not more than 10) years, when I go out, I'm a un-consenting, slightly trashy looking glitter queen. Cute, huh?
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For me it's not glitter, but dog hair. In fact, I was thinking that very thing...it's everywhere! It's driving me crazy!
This is so funny! My husband rarely lets Ava wear her pink sparkly princess dress for this reason. He called me from work one day to tell me to hide the dress because people kept asking if that was glitter on his face. By the time he got home nine people had commented on his new look. I thought it was kind of funny, but he sure didn’t.
But I LOVE sparkly things! Glitter is beautiful!
If my kids were young enough to give me the excuse, I'd splash a little glitter in my hair before I left the house. You know, to feel a little prettier. *grin*
As it is, now I'm making sure I remember to wash my hands after I'm finished playing with my son - lest I end up spreading grasshopper goo everywhere I go. LOL
Oh my.....glitter is SO messy.
I'm still finding clumps of my hair EVERYWHERE. Good thing I'm not looking to commit a crime--My DNA is everywhere. EVERYWHERE ;)
I am so with you on this one. My kids haven't used glitter since the New Years party in 07 and I still find glitter in my tissues when I blow my nose
Glitter should just magically disappear off the earth. The evil glitter stealing monster was no chance for the glitter fairy to save all the glitter on the earth.
Yeah that might help to trick them into thinking it doesn't exist anymore. lol
LOL! My daughter got glitter in her hair a few weeks ago and despite my scrubbing, there is STILL a little blue glitter on her scalp.
Not a trashy-glitter queen! More like a resplendant, shimmering goddess. =]
You are right about it reproducing. We haven't even been playing with glitter in our house and the other day Lily had some on her cheek -- I have no idea where it came from!
I admire your bravery. I don't have glitter in my house because it would be EVERYWHERE with 3 girls. I don't even like markers. I keep trying to convince them that crayons are still cool.
I'm still finding the stuff left over from Christmas! I don't know where it all comes from, but I bet that there is a naughty little fairy somewhere sprinkling the stuff when I'm not looking!
I'll catch the little monster one day!!!
I like a little bit of bling, but this is going too far!
My kids also adore glitter. I just try to embrace it! :)
You know I use to love glitter. Then when I was teaching an aid was helping with a glitter project. She went to wipe her eye and a tiny glitter scratched her cornea. Can you believe it? I kinda am freaked out about it now.
Glitter is kind of awesome, isn't it? Shiny, sparkley, and pretty. You are a great mom for letting the use it. I threw all of ours away a long time ago because I couldn't stand the mess.
This is too funny. I am past the gliter stage with my girls but my boss has a sweet 4 year old. So she must have been at the office one evening sitting in my chair, playing with glitter. I did not notice, sat down, went out at lunch, in Kroger the bag boy says something to the cashier about me having glitter all over my backside. And I did I was covered. It is funny now but then I was embarrased.
the glitter is SO you. ;)
i feel you... left my girls unsupervised with multiple containers of glitter and my loft is still sparkling. no matter how much i vacuum, i'm sure it can still be seen from space.
play-doh is reserved for restaurants only. this works so great!!
LOL!
Glitter is actually a "character" in the first chapter of my Hawaii novel "Aloha where you like go?"
You sure do SPARKLE!!!
Aloha, Friend!
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HA! I try to stay away from them too but my little girl is also entranced with this glitterati phenomena! Just tell them it's the new fashion statement next time someone points it out :)
Just FYI, there is NO glitter in my house. Although.... I'm suspecting that may change in the next few years... ;-)
No glitter, but dog hair is everywhere!
We graduated to glitter glue, just as sparkly a result but no loose glitter to escape all over the house!
Every time we use Playdoh, we find pieces of it in the carpet. For days afterward. Although it's worth it for them to have fun and learn in the process, it's still pretty frustrating to dig out of the carpet!
Oh, I remember those days, sometimes more fondly than others. I'm glad my glitter days are behind me!
There was an old joke about a woman who had a gyn appointment realizing at the last minute that she had to clean herself before she went. So she grabbed up the closest washrag on the sink and scrubbed her privates, then rushed out. Turned out that was the washrag her kids had been using to clean up after they'd been playing in glitter. You can imagine the doctor's face when she saw the woman's glittery privates!
glitter is like a friend you just can not get rid of. I almost bought some to do an art project with our 2 year old and then smartened up PRONTO.
Oh my goodness, YES! We have to put glitter on *everything* here. Every craft, every drawing, every coloring sheet. It's ridiculous! I tried to make it an "outside only" sort of thing, but somehow all those shimmering little pieces made their way inside all the same. So, for the time being, my house sparkles...but not because it's so clean.
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