There are too many girls in my family. I have three younger sisters, and four female cousins, who live right next door. No boys whatsoever. Our two households are close, having been home school neighbors for as long as we can remember, and growing up like this has been an interesting experience.

For one thing, there is an overflow of unnecesarry emotion that explodes all too often in our house, and I believe much of this is due to rampant hormones that simultaneously attacks one adolescent female after another. The household mood swings from excited to joyous to disturbed to offended to affectionate and then back again to excited - all over the course of fifteen minutes. It's a bit of an adventure.

I, for one, can't stand these emotional explosions, and have grown to learn the art of detaching myself from the drama when it's intense and join in when the general mood returns to being pleasant and fun. The trick is to just not get involved or open your mouth at all until the storm blows over. Cracking some kind of a lame joke can considerably help the situation.

When we all have to get ready at once in the morning, it can be a very daunting experience. Everyone has to take a shower, then everyone has to blowdry their hair (even my eight year old sister,) followed by borrowing each other's clothing, protesting about the clothes borrowed from us...All in all, it's a pretty chaotic experience, but delightful nonetheless :)

My poor dad had to get his own bathroom downstairs, due to the upstairs bathroom getting gradually overtaken by too many females.

But despite all the drama, it's been fun having the all girl atmosphere. There's a unique sort of openness that we get to have around each other, as well as girlish activities and conversations that spice up each day.