In the fall after we moved to our 2ND home, my friend and I decided to attend a cooking show together for a week. Our older daughter was in first grade and that left our younger daughter (3 year old) at home to go with us.
Each day they would demonstrate how to make certain kinds of dishes, meats, deserts, etc. Each day they also gave a bags of groceries away. I think that the cooking school was sponsored by the local grocery stores. The first day I was fortunate to win a bag of groceries. Then the next day my friend won a bag of groceries. Well the next day I figured it was my turn. The way it turned out, she won her 2ND bag of groceries.
The end of the week they were to give away a doll that looked like Little Miss Sunbeam. (like the Miss Sunbeam on the bread wrapper). How one could win the doll is to bring your child and they would select the one that most looked like Miss Sunbeam. I didn't think much of this, since Little Miss Sunbeam was a blond and our younger daughter had light brown hair. My friend thought that she did look like her, only a darker hair version. She told me to fix her hair piled up on her head and she thought she would have a chance! That was all it took for my daughter to get all excited about coming home with that beautiful doll.
No amount of trying to talk her out of trying to win that doll worked. I tried to explain that if there was a little blond girl trying out, she wouldn't have a chance. She still wanted to try. So we got busy and worked on her hair, piling it in curls up on top of her head. I did pray with her that night about this, since I knew she probably wasn't going to get that doll. She seemed to understand what I was trying to convey to her.
Well--The next day they had to choose which child got the doll! Our younger daughter did look like a "doll" to me, but you know I was her mother and that didn't count.
There were a number of children in the audience, but there were only 2 of the children that it was clear that they made an effort to compete. How it turned out was that the judges couldn't decide, so they both won a "Little Miss Sunbeam Doll" that day.
Thought--I think I would have had a mighty disappointed little girl that night had it not turned out she got this doll. I still have that doll today. She still has a determined spirit about her, and that is a good thing! God is pleased with a person that sets a goal and determined to run to the
finish line!
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I think I remember Mary winning that contest! Didn't she get her picture in the paper for that? Or am I thinking of when she gave her doll a drink at the water fountain?
The picture in the paper was when our city was having a soaring heat wave. They took her picture at the water fountain giving her a doll a drink of water. She had her bathing suit on. Good memory you have!
I have an odd memory! I can remember very insignificant things from several decades ago, but I can't remember where I laid a tool I was using 5 minutes ago!
I must say you are fast approaching the elderly age. Most older people have this problem quite frequently.
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