Last week I finally bought doll stands for our American Girl dolls. Caroline has the Caroline Abbott doll (Christmas gift from my parents) and a doll named Daisy (that she designed and bought herself). There are pictures of Caroline with her American Girl dolls here. I have Rebecca Rubin (also a gift from my parents).
The dolls sit on top of a bookcase in my office/homeschool room. Now they stand up and it’s a remarkable improvement to be able to fully see them! We started talking about American Girl doll history because Caroline wondered why I didn’t have one from when I was younger. I explained they came out just after I graduated from high school so I missed the appropriate age timeline for them.
I mentioned that I had always wanted Kirsten because she was blonde, blue eyed, and Swedish (like me). But they had stopped selling her a long time ago.
Anyway we hopped online so I could show Caroline what Kirsten looked like in the archives and discovered that Kirsten is for sale again! We stopped getting American Girl catalogs a number of years ago so I haven’t kept up at all with what they had been doing.
Caroline decided that evening (Friday) I needed a Kirsten doll so she secretly ordered one for me (using some of Bob’s money). She told David and they kept the secret all weekend.
The doll arrived today.
Caroline took pictures of the doll around the house so I could share them here.
Kirsten especially likes the deck and flowers.
West Michigan is not that different from Minnesota so she probably feels right at home.
Gifts is one of Caroline’s love languages and she used it to bless me today.
OH SHE is so beautiful!!!!! Perfect loving gift for mom. I had so many dolls too… my girlfriend and I always got the same dolls.. Sweet Sue is the closest I came to American Dolls…. she was so sweet like this one. Love the photos of her all over the place.. holding forks and on the porch… Caroline you are so wonderful to do this for your mom… and for us to see too. Blessings all, Love, Merrilyn Mc elderry ie Merri in Minnesota.
[pulls out secondhand English to Swedish dictionary]
Mycket snallt! (with umlaut on the a)
Very nice!
Oh my goodness. This is just the sweetest thing ever. Thank you for sharing such a lovely, heartfelt moment with us. We need more and more of these stories to fill our days right now!