the saga of the Christmas doll ~ or ~ STUPID SANTA!

After realizing that the guitar I'd ordered off Amazon a month ahead of time was not coming, I sat Brynn down and asked her what she would want instead if Santa couldn't bring her the guitar. She had to think for a while, but finally decided that she wanted an old fashioned doll, like on Little House on the Prairie. Okay, I thought, no problem. Wrong! I couldn't find an old fashioned doll anywhere! We even went to St. George on Christmas Eve day and looked at about 7 stores! Yikes, I was really starting to panic. I finally went to Micheal's Crafts and found a naked plastic doll body. I bought the doll, a stand, and some fabric and headed for home.

By the time we got done with the town Nativity, the delivering, reading of the Christmas story, and opening a present, it was after 10:00 pm before the kids were in bed and I could begin to start sewing doll clothes. Man, it was way harder than I expected it to be. Where was my sister Sharon when I needed her most! The details were so tiny and I'm embarrassed to say how many times I had to unpick seams. My machine started acting up about 2:30 am, but I finally got the dress and bonnet finished around 4:30. Of course, I still had to fill stockings, so by 5:00 am, I was finally in bed. Marty got up about then to go out and push snow.

The kids were kind enough to sleep until 7:30, and seemed thrilled with their "Santa" gifts. Brynn also got season 4 of Little House, and seemed very happy with the way things turned out. So I functioned all day, cooking a huge meal and having Marty's sister and nephew there all day, on 2 1/2 hours of sleep.

And you know who gets all the credit?

Stupid Santa, that's who.

Plastic doll body: $3.99; fabric: $4.44; sewing from 10:00 pm until 4:30 am: you couldn't pay me enough to do it again;

Seeing your little girl's face light up on Christmas morning because she loves her doll that Stupid Santa brought her: priceless.