When You Wish …

Had a childhood flashback thanks to my daughter yesterday.

It is that time of year! The commercials are already starting and two things arrived in the mail.

The Amazon and Walmart Wish books arrived in the mail!

Let me say that these are a FAR cry from the HUGE wish books that I went through growing up. And we certainly had a few to go through –

Montgomery Ward ….

Sears …

And JC Penney (which was our favorite)

We’d spend hours looking through these wish books, thinking that these were commissioned by Santa. After all, we were creating our list of toys that HE was going to bring. Our folks told us constantly that they had to pay him for them!

I remember the above page like I was still 5 years old. We actually had that treehouse!

The above page was one that had a huge black circle around that Millennium Falcon! Santa did bring it to me that year, incidentally!

Anyway, back to my daughter. She is at that age now where she wants a say in what she wants for Christmas. So I grabbed a pen and we opened up the Walmart Wish Book (which was more like a cheap magazine). Her finger pointed to toy after toy. “Circle that one for me!” “I think Bubby (her brother, Andrew) wants that. Circle it for him!”

I circled and circled many items. It was insane! I circled doll houses, electric cars, Paw Patrol, Cocomelon, and Gabby’s Dollhouse stuff. There was something on every page. There were even times she would offer special instructions. For example, when we came to this …

…she made sure to say, “I want this Barbie house. With the Barbie car. And all the Barbies, ok?”

She is a hoot and it was a lot of fun going through the books with her. Now we wait to see if she is on the Naughty or Nice List, right!?