Monday, October 31, 2016
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Keeping up with Santa
Simply Wonderful Toys has - you guessed it - a comprehensive selection of toys for the young ones eagerly waiting Christmas Eve.
In the party isle stands a girl, barely 4. She whines her desperation of having to make a choice between a tea set and a princess dress. The mother brings a smile on the other browsers’ faces when she says: “Welcome to real life, darling.”
Somehow I got stuck with the T-bird convertible in which Thelma and Louise flown off the cliff. On the rack are Monster Trucks, Lighting McQueen, Thomas and Disney Toys. Boys must have an inborn knowledge of what they want or in the case of Justin turning 3 what he apparently needs. I snatch the last John Deere tractor with big wheels, hook and trailer and tick that off my list. Done.
Not necessarily inept, the second child gets to play with the firstborn’s toys and she might by default ends up pursuing a career in the vehicle industry if Santa doesn’t provide relief.
To pick a doll for Emily’s first Christmas is more of a challenge than I would like to admit. Boxed in the Orphan Isle are dolls waiting upon adoption. They can swim, eat, and cry, talk and they need motherly girls to take them home.
The one as cute as the other, but since Emily is fairy-like tiny the doll in the bathing suit matches her profile.
Dolls with names can swim, eat, and cry, talk and they need motherly girls to take them home.
This time of the year is also a time known for stories. The Gingerbread Man, Elf on the Shelf, Rudolph the red nose Reindeer --
When the toys are unwrapped and the hourglass of 2014 runs empty the Barefoot Book of Mother & Daughter Tales by Josephine Evetts-Secker and illustrated by Helen Cann a timeless treasure.
Happy Holidays to All
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