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12/21/08
When we lived in the US, my husband and I had a holiday tradition of volunteering at the Salvation Army's "Elf Night," the 23rd, putting together packages of donated toys and clothes for poor families in Baltimore. It was always a really rewarding and fun experience.
Am I the only Jewish girl who loves the Christmas season? Yeah the stores are packed and the music is annoying, but everyone is cheerful, there are great sales, and "It's a Wonderful Life" is on TV.
12/20/08
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Molly!! (She had glasses, like me! I wanted Samantha but loved Molly's glasses.)
One of those Secret Surprise babies where you pulled off the hat and found out whether or not it was a boy or girl baby (c'mon, 90s babies, tell me y'all know these)
A boombox
Uggs (I wanted these for AGES)
Doc Martens (ditto)
Pinky and Teddy!! (My teddy bears I've had since I was two. They're at my parents' house and I really want to bring them to NYC, Boyfriend be damned!)
12/20/08
My fluffy puppy girl is my bestest all-time present, however, but I got her for my 16th birthday. I miss the crap out of Princess and CANNOT WAIT to see her wiggly rumbly self when I go home!! Chocolate labs FTW!
12/20/08
The year before, I got my mice, a boy and girl. Good thinking, Mom and Dad!! Withing two months, I had eight more mice. The gift that keeps on giving.
Oh, and Velvet, when I was 9. She came in a gorgeous deep purple velvet dress, and you could pull her pony-tail out to make her hair long.
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Man, that was a different time!
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I remember coveting my boy friend's presents... skateboards, science kit, train sets, army men. I still smart over the fact I NEVER got a Millennium Falcon with Landau Calrissian Action Figure.
But I loved this Make-It and Bake-It Oven I got one year. Cooked many a meat, worm, and play-doh pie in that yellow box. A few Barbies even met their end there, may they rest in peace.
Finally my parents wised up and got me a dirt bike. I rode all over LA in that thing. Good times!
12/20/08
My parents carried me upstairs to their bedroom, where I continued wailing, convinced that I was going to get a Time Out for my tantrum. Now they're taking me into their bathroom! Oh shit, I'm getting a Serious Time Out!
...and then my dad opened the shower door, and there in all its cardboard glory stood my Barbie Townhouse.
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Seriously, few things have ever made me so happy.
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When I was 9, a house on the street had 9! puppies. So I called my Dad (parents are divorced)) and let him know that there were puppehs! It was his weekend to have me, and I begged him to stop at this house on the way home. We did, and I picked my puppeh. She was a beautiful border collie/husky mix. And she was mine. I promptly took her on a tour of the neighborhood (we lived in a bad part of town), and knocked on everyone's doors to announce that I finally got a puppeh. She was my Christmas present. I usually had Christmas with Mom, but I had Christmas with Dad that year so I could be with Candi on Christmas morning. I didn't get much that year - I think a doll and some hair things, but Candi was all I wanted. She passed away in 2005, at the age of 16. I still miss her so much. She sits on my dresser in an urn. I have her picture up there also with her collar draped over it. 1989 was the best Christmas ever.
12/20/08
and now i also have kodiak snuggled up with me =)
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I also remember I had a Brooke Shields doll, and she was wearing a kickass shiny fuschia prom dress, and when you took it off, her panties were painted on.
This was the doll, but mine had a different outfit:
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A friend of mine never got one as a kid so a couple years back we all got her one for her birthday. She loved it.
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Seriously though. I want one too.
12/20/08
Besides my first bike and my Cabbage Patch Doll Kate (who I named Kay and still have), I was just delighted to have something to open. Boxes are the gifts that keep on giving. Big boxes became forts and sleds (we got about a 1/2 of snow) and my mom's shoe boxes became all of the cool Barbie luxuries we couldn't afford like cars and houses.
12/20/08