PINK

As I was driving to Costco today, I was telling my son that some people talk about buying clothes for their children, while they are waiting for a referral. They suggest buying for the upper end of their request.

I told him that that was pretty impossible for me, since our age request goes from 0-48 months and 0-7 years. That would mean I would have the joy of buying for what? a 4 year old and 7 year old. What if we got referred the bottom end? So that wouldn't do - too bad. No buying cute clothes.

A little later, I was at Costco and of course one of the first places I look are the books and dvds. I like to get classic dvds for the boys. I lucked out and found a classic box of dvds including: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cheaper By The Dozen, Dr. Dolittle, My Friend Flicka, Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines and more.

It is so much fun having a large family. When I first starting copying movies on the vcr for the boys sixteen years ago, I had no idea we would still be adding children nearly 20 years later!! What a blessing!! So it is FUN when I get to start a new library in a new era - no more tapes - dvds now!

Anyhow, after I found the boys ones, I saw this pink box of dvd's and as I saw it was my old favourite Shirley Temple, my brain went "PINK!" "GIRL!" "I can buy that!!! "




I grabbed it and was thrilled to get it!! I would have bought this years ago, but knew that it wouldn't last with boys. They just wouldn't get a thrill out of it.

The ironic thing was the thought that followed. While I was thrilled to bits to have a pretty pink box of videos for my girls (something that they couldn't grow out of before they arrived), I suddenly had a sobering thought. Having birthed six caucasion children this thought has never crossed my mind before. It did today.

Would my little girls like a box of videos about a cute little white girl? Would they wonder why there were no little girls that look like them? I am not sure. But it kind of made me think.