“So, Girls, What Do You Want for Christmas?”

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their grandmother asked them lovingly at our weekly Sunday dinner. “We want to buy a school in Afghanistan for $60,000 to educate the kids.”

What? Who ARE these people? I loved the days when the answers were, “I want ‘Teacher Barbie!'” “I want ‘Kelly goes in a Jeep!'” (You know Kelly, Barbie’s little sister?)

My reply? I just shook my head and said, “I would love to get this limited edition Wizard of Oz collection of Pez dispensers,”

and this, to add to my American Girl Doll Christmas decoration collection:Hey, at least I’m a girl who knows what she wants.(Leave me alone. A dog bit my hand and it hurts. So BACK OFF! Or I’ll bite YOU!)