Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been fascinated with dolls. I have collected them since I was a child but not as collector items…just because they make me happy. ( I admit, I still play with them). When my girls were young, we used to go to yard sales and rescue dolls that we assumed had been tossed aside by children who grew up and didn’t want them anymore. We would bring our babies home and lovingly bathe them and wash their hair. Then we would go through their own baby clothes that I had saved and we would dress them up.
Years passed..My little girls grew up and no longer played with those rescued dolls but I couldn’t bear to part with them. So here they are in the new townhome along with the rest of my doll family.
Every morning as I open the blinds and let the sunshine pour in, I see those little smiling faces and I remember….