Dolls

Both of my girls have a never ending love and desire for baby dolls. Every so often, Morgan will become fixated on the idea of obtaining a new loved one. Now, it seems to me and every other adult looking at the situation that the girls have a million baby dolls. Why would they need another? Well, of course, the answer is simply that they do not need a new baby at all. They want a new baby. "But you already have plenty of babies," is a line Mark and I have delivered on more occasions than I could count. Most of the time my grown up, money conscious, rational, conserving mind puts its foot down and new babies stay packaged neatly on their shelves in this or that store. However, if there is anything at all that would have me spin 180 in order to fully put myself in my daughters' shoes, it would be the yarn haired, freckled faced 25th anniversary Cabbage Patch Doll that was sitting on the shelf at Target. Her eyes beckoned and I could just smell that comforting aroma of a new Cabbage Patch Baby as the box is first opened. My arms actually longed to hold the little thing and I had to summon the rational mind I just mentioned so I did not grab the doll and run to the check out. It seems that the dolls from 1983 are making a reappearance on the shelves and just seeing them awakened that yearning for a new baby doll that may not be rational, but is very very real. At 31 years old, I want one of those dolls like I did when I was 5. I absolutely do not need one and you will not see me crossing the check out with one in my cart. But I understand with my entire being what my brain can't explain about why my children want new dolls.
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