American Girl

Annabel is the very happy owner of a "new" American Girl doll.  Annabel purchased Josefina on eBay last week.

What makes Josefina even more precious is that Annabel has been saving up for more than 2 years to buy her.  Almost all of her birthday & Christmas money - not to mention her allowance - has been squirreled away for this.  That's no mean feat, especially since she has only been given permission to spend up to half of her savings.  Throughout the process, we've had lots of discussions with Annabel about delayed gratification, impulse buying, saving, and not purchasing cheap junk.  For now at least, she is thrilled with her choices - as are we!

Long an art fan, Annabel is also starting to show an interest in sewing, embroidery and knitting.  (She absolutely did NOT inherit her talents from me, that is for sure!)  The picture above was taken of her first sampler.

Yes, Annabel is growing up, and it's been fun to start to do other new things with her as well, including making our traditional Christmas leftse - matching aprons & all!

I truly do enjoy my little buddy!