There can be no greater thrill today than to see a two year old's face light up at a gift. There can also be no assurance just what gift can assuredly elicit that response. My two year old relative was made to sparkle brilliantly and spoke the creatures name for the very first time..'.Sqauky' reminiscent of the glee decades ago at the original Henson puppets like Kermit the frog, Elmo, and all those others so many children had with which to grow up, learn concepts of interaction with other children, how to recognize and express feelings, how to share and so many of life's lessons. The puppets have been in 'evolution since and today there is a whole new species called Pajanimals. When we had the Velveteen Rabbit as a transitional object, life has added many more stuffed animals so that children now have a regular zoo of them.
The second success gift was an electronic piano that plays about three octaves and has a little microphone. How quickly a little starlet (ham, that is) learns to use the mike.
I can't imagine how the world survives the stockpiles that must exist of candles, mugs, handmade soaps, and other assorted staples that keep us all for years. I never thought I'd see the day when the thrill of Christmas for me is giving, not receiving, but it has actually arrived. To anyone reading this who gave me a gift, that is not to mean that you should stop giving me gifts...it only means I love to see the joy which usually comes from the faces of children while the adults are more inscrutable.
Now we can look forward to Christmas 2013. The Mayans were either wrong or no one knows how to read their calendar. Or are we now living in an alternate universe?
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