Post by mckay on Dec 30, 2007 23:34:27 GMT -5
I didn't see a thread for this one, but if there is, please direct me to it!
I picked this one up at a thrift store over the weekend and remembered why I liked it so much as a kid. I probably had about a half dozen doctor/vet kits as a kid. In fact, I have a picture of the giant box I ended up using to contain them all! It came with one of the vet kits, but it actually ended up holding a TON of stuff...and if you look closely you can see the BSC board game in the mess of my room somewhere! Oh, and my kitten, who was the intended subject of the photo
Anyway, my point is, I loved this one as a kid. Although I didn't like dolls as much as stuffed animals, the hospital idea sounded like a ton of fun.
Mr. Kelly seemed SO nice, too. It makes me sad even now that he had to leave all his toys behind in Ireland when he was a little boy. When I was in first grade, a kid joined our class who was an immigrant (I guess, I don't really remember) and he'd had to leave most of his toys behind. Such a sad thought. I loved how Mr. Kelly would fix up old, unwanted toys and give them to children who needed them. (The thought of toys being unwanted also makes me sad...I never outgrew thinking toys have feelings!) He just seemed like the sweetest man, who really understood and cared about children.
I kind of wondered why Karen's parents would let her drag Hyacynthia around to her friends' houses, and between her two houses, since she was so fragile and expensive. Even the most careful seven-year-old is still seven. And I thought Karen was acting kind of bratty when she had a fit about not wanting to replace Natalie's doll because she had promised Hyacynthia a new dress. It's a little mean to put your doll's happiness over your friend's, even if your friend is Natalie Springer And I just thought her reluctance was obnoxious. I mean, she was told not to touch the doll's hair, and she pulled it all out. If she were my child, she'd have been in major trouble for doing that and for having that kind of attitude about it.
I picked this one up at a thrift store over the weekend and remembered why I liked it so much as a kid. I probably had about a half dozen doctor/vet kits as a kid. In fact, I have a picture of the giant box I ended up using to contain them all! It came with one of the vet kits, but it actually ended up holding a TON of stuff...and if you look closely you can see the BSC board game in the mess of my room somewhere! Oh, and my kitten, who was the intended subject of the photo
Anyway, my point is, I loved this one as a kid. Although I didn't like dolls as much as stuffed animals, the hospital idea sounded like a ton of fun.
Mr. Kelly seemed SO nice, too. It makes me sad even now that he had to leave all his toys behind in Ireland when he was a little boy. When I was in first grade, a kid joined our class who was an immigrant (I guess, I don't really remember) and he'd had to leave most of his toys behind. Such a sad thought. I loved how Mr. Kelly would fix up old, unwanted toys and give them to children who needed them. (The thought of toys being unwanted also makes me sad...I never outgrew thinking toys have feelings!) He just seemed like the sweetest man, who really understood and cared about children.
I kind of wondered why Karen's parents would let her drag Hyacynthia around to her friends' houses, and between her two houses, since she was so fragile and expensive. Even the most careful seven-year-old is still seven. And I thought Karen was acting kind of bratty when she had a fit about not wanting to replace Natalie's doll because she had promised Hyacynthia a new dress. It's a little mean to put your doll's happiness over your friend's, even if your friend is Natalie Springer And I just thought her reluctance was obnoxious. I mean, she was told not to touch the doll's hair, and she pulled it all out. If she were my child, she'd have been in major trouble for doing that and for having that kind of attitude about it.