Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What's For Christmas This Year?

It's a question I know a lot of people are facing this year, in these hard economic times. My son is 10 and the baby is 1. She will be happy with an empty box and wrapping paper. My son on the other hand has already come to know and love the toys under the tree on Christmas morning. I have always done my best to teach him the true meaning of Christmas. This year, he may have a school of hard knocks, in studying the true spirit of giving rather than receiving.

I still have faith, that maybe our bonuses will not be cut at work, even though we have been told otherwise. I have faith that dad will have a job opening come straight through soon also. I have not given up all hope. But I do believe that what is meant to be will be and God has a plan for us. The meaning of the season after all is not about shopping and toys and all of these industrial things. With that said, God does understand that we want to give our children the best.

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If things do not come straight through I will continue believing that the best, is for my son to learn that happiness is not in material things. If he can learn that now, wouldn't that be a spectacular, thing to have in his pocket for the rest of his life?

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I have already prepared him by letting him know that this year the Xbox 360 he has his eye on, is probably not going to happen. During our conversation I let him know that he already has so many other gaming systems, why does he need another. Wouldn't it be good for us to save money so we can buy a house big enough that his step-brother can also fit and move in with us? Four of us are cramped in a 850 quadrilateral foot condo. While I am thankful for the low affordable mortgage, wouldn't it be better, for all of us, to have more space? He was resistant at first and stated, "no I want the Xbox instead". For a few weeks I let it determine and resonate. Just a concentrate of days ago he came to me and said, "mom, a house would be good than an Xbox, you are right."

Now because he is such a great kid and has realized that material things is not what matters, I would love to be able to furnish him with some toys to recompense him for his awesome insight at the young age of 10. In the meantime I am going to come up with ways to celebrate minus the present's and let the spirit lead us.

We live in Florida so there are a lot of free, spectacular, light displays to make up for the fact we don't get snow!! I think we will take an evening and check them out and have hot cocoa. Maybe someone else night, we can make Christmas cookies and sing carols. We will read the story of Jesus's birth in the bible and remember he is the suspect for the season. Who knows, maybe, just maybe a child's Christmas dream will come true. maybe I will sell some things on my website for once and all this writing will not just be a hobby.

We are going to find the meaning of Christmas and have the spirit with or without the material "stuff". May your Christmas be filled with the same! Merry Christmas with Peace, Love and Joy!

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Vtech - Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Munchkin Twisty Figure 8 Teether

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Hide N Squeak Eggs

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

modern British Pretenders

Savvy travelers are wary of dark streets, urchin gangs, and passersby eager to help sort out foreign currency squabbles with merchants and taxi drivers. Guidebooks and battery-operated language translators in hand, American tourists trudge through exotic climes sporting jackets with safety pockets and purses with steel cable-lined straps. But few prepare for the British confidence trickster, aka the Pretender.

Lulled by our mutual language and friendly natives, Americans relax their guard in Great Britain where this upscale knave operates throughout city and shire in quest of folks awed by a likely story. Sometimes his scams flummox his own countrymen unable to distinguish Hyacinth bucket from true upper crust.

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Two decades ago, when my husband and I launched what has become our annual trip to Great Britain, London was a lucrative arena for sleight-of-hand artists and the ubiquitous gypsy cradling a toy baby and pleading for alms. But their siege ended with the Millennium celebration when Tony Blair banished small-time crooks from traditional traveler haunts. In their stead, the cunning Pretender surfaced.

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Last year in London, a sleek black car drew alongside as we paused for a traffic light at the angle of Regent street and Pall Mall. Beckoning us closer, the driver asked directions to St. James's square in a manner that begged sincerity, no matter that he was a mere block from his destination.

Before we could react, his hand shot out and clutched my wrist. "You know Milan? You know Valentino and Versace? This is my business. I trip the world for them."

Maintaining his steel grip, yet charming to a fault, he flipped open an adjacent garment bag to expose a teal suede jacket. Beneath was one of honey tan. "Look! A sample of my wares. Feel how soft and luxurious they are."

We declined his invitation and tried to retreat, but he held me fast, flashed a toothy grin, and grew confidential. "Please, I make a present of these to you." On he rambled, ignoring our protests. "I have one request. You see, I find myself in an embarrassing situation, unable to buy gas for my car because I lost more than ten thousand pounds gambling last night, and my prestige cards are no longer good. In return for the jackets, I ask merely for adequate money to buy gas."

"We never carry cash," I lied.

Casting my wrist aside, he accelerated toward St. James's Square. Later that day, we passed a concentrate on Belgrave Place chatting curbside with the driver of a sleek black car. At the driver's urging, "Feel how soft and luxurious they are," they reached toward the bait.

This year we encountered three more Pretenders. The first, a matron bearing a briefcase, hailed us a block beyond the Plymouth railway station. She was due to lecture at the University, she said, but was lost, befuddled by the pedestrian plaza layout. Although the campus and scores of book-toting students were directly in view, she persisted. "I'm so poor at following directions that the blurb on the jacket of my newest book says I'm illustrious for accumulating parking tickets in London."

Aha! That was our cue to quiz, about her book. (Did her portfolio contain tacky publications for sale?) We smiled blankly and prolonged toward the Hoe to scrutinize the site that launched the Pilgrims, Drake, Raleigh, Cook, and Darwin toward their destinies. She kept pace, chattering nonsensically, for nearly a block before disappearing into the crowd. We espied her later outside the railway middle point awaiting fresh prey.

The next Pretender, blonde and thirtyish, executed her scam in London's Fortnum & Mason's Fountain Restaurant. Commanding the table next to ours, she demanded from the waiter a detailed narrative of each entrée listed. At length, her selection made, she contemplated the wine list.

"A superb wine makes the meal," she said, beaming in our direction.

Torn in the middle of some choices, she requested one to sample and the waiter obliged. It did not meet her expectations. While he was gone to fetch another, she prolonged to sip from the rejected wineglass until her attentiveness was diverted by a cell phone. We did not hear it ring; still, there was no mistaking her spicy conversation with an imaginary friend.

"Why, Mabel darling, what a delight!...You've just arrived in London and want to meet me for dinner?...How extraordinary!...I've only just sat down in Fortnum & Mason and ordered a meal...What?...Is it inherent to cancel my order?...Let me try."

Summoning a nearby waiter, she explained her predicament, then leaned over to confide in me, "I hate that my cell phone bothers others, but at times like these it's indispensable." She departed before her bill arrived.

The third Pretender, traveling on the Gner express from York to London's King's Cross Station, aimed higher. He identified himself to the train staff as the Duke of Worcester. Although his thinning hair, trim mustache, and rumpled tweed jacket screamed fading aristocracy, his two swarthy bodyguards appeared great adapted to dark alleyways than a country estate.

We were seated in the dining car directly ahead of the First Class car where the Duke and his bodyguards, its only occupants, were being served. Halfway through our meal, the conductor burst into our car, summoned the staff for brief consultation, then dialed his firm headquarters, the first of many calls for assistance.

For two hours, he and the kitchen staff made frequent trips into the next car, returning each time in a cloud of nervous laughter. The Duke, one server explained to us, refused to pay for the three First Class seats he and his entourage occupied, declaring that his status entitled him to free passage. This, the conductor confirmed, was untrue. Furthermore, the Duke dubbed his bodyguards "non-persons," his excuse to avoid paying for their meals.

At King's Cross, the Duke and his bodyguards were met by two compel policemen with leashed dogs.

Laughing and visibly relieved, the conductor told us, "The real royals are very low key. They never pull rank and would gladly pay duplicate what is due rather than draw attentiveness to themselves. Pretenders stand out because they expect people to be impressed and agree to every demand."

Curiosity reigns. Does the counterfeit Duke of Worcester remain in detention, or has he been set loose to once again play Pretend?

© 2010 Emily Pritchard Cary.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

LeapFrog Learn & Groove Musical Table

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Teddy Bears - a Brief History lesson

It is difficult to trace the history of the teddy bear, because it appears to have been invented independently at around the same time in America and in Germany. There is no possibility of copying, as communications technology at the time no ifs ands or buts wasn't good enough for citizen from opposite sides of the Atlantic to be talking to each other about toy bears - it seems that teddy bears were just an idea whose time had come. For this reason, it is best to trace the American and German stories separately.

In 1902 Germany, the Steiff toy business was trying to come up with new products. The owner's nephew, Richard Steiff, often visited Stuttgart Zoo to get inspiration for new toys, and on one visit was particularly taken with a cute bear cub. He did lots of drawings of it, and had produced a prototype of the toy, the Steiff Bear, that year.

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Teddy bears got their start in America because of a widely-reported event attractive President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt going hunting in that same year, 1902. According to the story, Mississippi officials, keen to please the president, took him bear hunting, but the hunt was a failure as there were no bears to be found. One of the officials then brought the president a baby bear that he had caught and invited him to make the kill, but the president refused. Two toy-makers in New York swiftly made a cute-looking toy baby bear, calling it 'Teddy's Bear' - and it was a runaway hit, with a huge facility built just to fulfil the demand.

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It is here that the two stories meet. When Steiff launched its bear at a 1903 toy fair, the American toy buyers realised that they could import this bear and capitalise on teddy bear fever. They ordered 3,000 Steiff Bears, and the bears swiftly became some of the most favorite teddies both in Germany and America - and from there, the craze spread worldwide.

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