Ah, the irony...

Ok, the last post was just slaving for mturk again. Still catching up since the holidays. The title of this post refers to my in-laws. They got me the book A Year Without Made in China, which was a surprisingly appropriate and thoughtful gift, considering my Buy American leanings (are liberals allowed to have those? Ah, another topic entirely. Anyway.) and my complaints about how so many things today are such junk, and so on.

Then they gave my daughter a doll, whose leg broke off with very little prompting right on Christmas Eve. There was an amazing trauma and they promised to take her to the doll hospital and get her fixed (ie secretly replaced). Apparently they mucked with it so much, rather than just return it, that they figured the store would blame them and they, amazingly, bought a whole new one instead. THEN, the day they gave it to us, right after we got home, gosh, what do you know, its leg broke off, just like the first one. More child traumas. I wanted to break some legs and I don't mean the doll's...This was beyond ridiculous, so we promised to get her crutches or some such and taped her leg back on and she has mostly laid in the doll bed since then, ignored.
At least stuffed animals don't break so easily but people could really lay off giving those, too.

Time to break out that sewing machine and make the memorable sort of toys and clothes that my grandmother made us....