So I got the American Girls catalog (goodness knows why) and it turns out that they are retiring the “Samantha” doll. Samantha is the doll whose clothes and books were all Victorian-era. I positively coveted that doll when I was 10-12 years old (before we moved to the house my parents live in). For whatever reason, Samantha is the one and only present I can think of that my Grandma never bought me. (She was probably being smart – I was getting to the end of the years where a girl plays with dolls and these things were a huge investment, even in the late 1980s).<\/p>\n
Ugh. And now they are retiring her. A little bit of me is panicking – what if I ever have a daughter? And part of it is that thing where parents always want their children to have the things they never did (the same reason why if I had a daughter I’d want her to take dance classes and be a cheerleader and NO I am not kidding shut UP).<\/p>\n
Soooo, yeah. I am beginning to think it is time to cancel the credit cards and suspend my PayPal account because this is a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n
(edited to add: Looked on eBay. Crisis averted. Geez Louise…I have a better chance of actually having a daughter than getting the right doll at a decent price!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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