It’s two months until Xmas, but we’ve gotten our first holiday toy catalog, so of course Mika has been choosing what she wants for Xmas. I’ve looked up the items she selected on Amazon (where they are cheaper) and tried to steer her to things that are reasonably priced. Fortunately, she understands that some things are too expensive.
What she wants the most this Christmas is a Pleo, a dinosaur robot, which is super cute but ridiculously expensive. She’s not getting it. Second in her list is a Nintendo DS, which speaks greatly to the joys of peer pressure. What she’s really into, though, are littlest petshop animals. She has over a dozen, but she wants more – and equipment for them. She does play a lot with them, so that’d be a good gift.
Her Amazon wish list is at http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1QH9UXHMFMH3M/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go or search for Mika Lacabe
As for Camila, she hasn’t changed her tastes. She’s into Dora the Explorer and babies – but she has tons of the latter. She’s starting to do imaginative play (making pencils into people) as well. I made a wish list for her that includes a couple of Dora things, but in reality she’d love anything Dora. I’ll be adding more things to it as I find them.
Camila’s wish list is at http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/39OJA30F1N59A/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go
Author: marga (Page 86 of 158)
Xmas list – revision I
-Mixing bowls with lids (Like these ones)
-A Dutch oven
–A corningware dish – I want the 2 1/2 qt one, but it may be cheaper to buy it in a set than alone.
-A black cloak:
like this one
-Shawls: one, another (in ivory), yet another one, you get the picture.
-Babysitting coupons
-Gift certificates to nice (or not so nice) restaurants
-Piedmont Springs gift certificate
-Down comforter
-Framing my pictures (I have LOTS of pictures I need to frame!)
-movie tickets
-sunglasses (any)
-Driving lessons
A new .. old.. and repeated story..its heroes are the children and youth of the village of Dest El-Ashraf, Kom Hamada province, Beheira governorate.
Scene one: children and youth in the age of flowers come out every day to work in the farms in Nubaria. They are shipped in pickup trucks to the large farms yearning to manpower to plant and harvest them. The children are the tool which irrigates the land of the farms. The land drinks from their childhood, their fragile bodies, and their innocent eyes.
Scene two: children at the age of growth, starting from the age of seven, kneeling on the ground removing grass, harvesting crop or sowing seeds over the long working hours, which are no less than 10 hours, that might or might not, be divided by a half hour to rest and eat poor food (cheese, tomato, or mashed potatoes in the best of cases). During the long work day under the harsh hot sun or bitter cold, these (working) children are not allowed to speak, look around or be lazy at work. A child who is lazy is beaten by a hose and humiliated and insulted with the most brutal words, particularly the girls, who are subjected to humiliation and obscene words. It seems as if we are back to the era of slaves, and children have become slaves to the landlord, forced to work with every drop of blood in his land in exchange for a handful of pounds which are not enough for the misery and hardship of the long day. There is no place here to talk about employment contracts, health and social insurance, a meal, a certain number of working hours, or definite wages.
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