Stop with the Care Bears, Please

Yesterday I had to remove the side rails from Larien's bed. The reason is that the fabric around the poles had frayed and was no longer capable of keeping a rolling child from falling on the floor. I will try to salvage them, but that is another post for a much later day.

While I was removing the bed rails I changed the sheets from the quite boring, but very comfortable ecru sheets, to the colorful, much-loved Care Bear sheets. Larien helped me and also helped to replace all of the Care Bears to her bed. She was quite insistent that their place was on the bed, not in the toy box. "Not in there, Mommy," she would say with her eyebrows knitted together. "This Care Bear goes in my bed, right here."


While the bed was so nicely made and arranged I took a picture to show all of you potential present givers out there that Larien has plenty of Care Bears. She does not need any others. She may want more, but she does not need more.


Don't believe me? Here is a list:

• Care Bear sheets
• Three or four Care Bear outfits (okay I bought three of them, this post is as much a wake up call for me as well)
• Care Bear gowns-six of them at last count, one pilfered from Inwe's collection of nightwear
• Four Care Bear water squirters
• Two Care Bear 3-inch figurines left over from a collection of eight.
• Two Care Bear ornaments
• One large Friend Bear
• Two Funshine Bears
• One Share Bear
• One Share Bear pillow
• One Wish Bear
• One Love-a-lot Bear
• One Cheer Bear
• And one small Care Bear whose name eludes me. I can't even find it on the internet.