This year children are asking Santa to give mom and dad a job.
As a staff at Northern Hills, instead of giving each other a Christmas gift, we pool our funds and buy Christmas gifts for some children in the Brighton Head Start program. This year we bought gifts for 44 children. No one asked for a job for their parents, but the requests were very interesting.
On Tuesday the entire staff headed to Walmart on a mission to fulfill the wishes of several 4 year old children. Each staff person was given 2-3 cards with the child's first name and the desired gift. It is interesting what some children want. I had the opportunity to buy gifts for two little boys. One wanted Spider-Man. That was not too tough, in fact I found a Spider-Man on a motorcycle. My second little guy asked for something that was much harder to find, Spike the Dinosaur. I did not even know what that was. I did not find anything that said Spike the Dinosaur. (I have since seen Spike). I did find a dinosaur that looked fierce, made noise and moved. It had spikes too, so I hope that it is a nice gift.
Here are some of the other things the kids asked for in their own words:
- Dragon ship with people in it
- A king (Not sure why a 4 year old wants a king, but...)
- A mop and broom (Does this little girl know how to have fun or what?)
- Any and everything Hannah Montana (I am more of a Joe Montana kind of guy)
- Train track
- Batman
- Baby Alive
- Robot
- Tea Part Set
- Barbie
- Horses or Movies of Horses (Flicka Flick Fan For Sure)
- The Hulk
- Big Bumble Bee
- Princess Crown
- A motorcycle (this kid got a 4 pack!)
- Transformer
- Braatz Doll (Not sure what this is)
- Big Car
- Dress Up
It's ok that you don't know what a Braatz Doll is. It just shows that your kids are older and that you don't have grandkids yet! :)
Posted by: Mandy Bohall | December 16, 2008 at 01:26 PM
Isn't it funny that the little girls ask for brooms and mops and Baby Alives? Little do they realize, they've got their whole lives to clean up around the house and change baby diapers. Oh well, I was the exact same way...cracks me up!
Way to go on finding Spike (or some dino that very much looks like Spike). That little boy is going to be so psyched!!
Posted by: Denise Schowe | December 17, 2008 at 08:59 AM
What a great idea! Hope the NH staff don't mind if the D2S-ers steal the idea for '09...
Posted by: Debb Bresina | January 03, 2009 at 09:08 PM
Remember when you said you were turning over a new blog leaf? I'm waiting!
Posted by: Carol Ann | January 08, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Post something, please!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Carol Ann | February 12, 2009 at 08:56 AM