The Call of the Heels

When growing up there are certain milestones that a girl achieves along her way to becoming a lady.... such as curling hair, applying makeup, and learning how to walk in high heels.

I had my first pair of heels when I attended my first high school dance (that's right I said high school). As a kid I was too much of a tom boy to want all that dress up stuff for little girls....how was I to know that those items were not toys but training tools disguised in glitter and bows. I remember getting the shoes the week before so I could master them before hand. Picture it, a tall skinny girl on chicken legs trying to maneuver down the hallway, walking stiffly trying to keep my face from the collision course it was on with the floor.

Needless to say I was able to remain on my feet and now I am the proud owner of two pairs of high heels. I still occasionally get the slip going on or the little wobble when the heel goes down wrong, but hey I'm only semi-pro.

Now here is where the story turns embarrassing....isn't it already, you ask? My daughter is now a year and a half. She is a very prissy type of girl and I can tell with her it's going to be all about barbies, clothes, purses, makeup and shoes. She's already asking to wear my lip gloss and when I'm putting on makeup she is right there asking for some. Of course the only thing she gets is a little Burt's bees on the lips and a swipe of my makeup brush across her cheeks. She's always walking around in her dad's shoes because like any man he leaves his things everywhere in the house. Seriously you wouldn't believe how many pairs of shoes I pick up in a day...but I digress.

One day my daughter went into my closet and discovered a sparkling pair of shoes in the floor. I was in the living room and heard the clunk, clunk, clunk coming down the hallway. I looked up to see she had on my strappy high heels, and was doing a damn good job maneuvering in them. I think "Aw my little girl is so cute". It only took her walking all the way to me to realize she walked better in heels than I did! What took me years to achieve she did it in a few minutes...and the shoes didn't even fit! Now my daughter is the proud owner of six (yes six) pairs of sparkling Disney princess heels.