Saturday, January 2, 2010
9:57 PM
More Dime Store Toys
A couple more of the random toys you could find on any given day at the dime stores. Have I mentioned how I loved going to the dime stores when I was a kid. My mom and I were the dime store queen and princess of our town. We visted all of them almost every single day and because of the unbelievably low prices, I got a toy almost every single day as well. Just getting to go and look at the toys while my Mama shopped for the little things she needed would have been exciting enough for me but my Mama's policy was always that if she had a dime or two to spend on herself, then she had a dime or two to spend on us kids so that's just what she did. I also always got an ice cold pop and some sort of treat whenever we went out and about during the day. She isn't the best mom in the world because she spent money on Bernie and me. She's the best mom in the world because she has always, always loved us wholly, with everything she has, not because she feels obligated to do so, but because she genuinely wants to. We are everything to her and trust me....she is everything to us, as well.
You can keep all of the amazing tangibles that she's given me over the years because as wonderful as those things are, they don't even begin to compare to the gift of her loving arms wrapped around me, or the sound of her tender voice telling me that she loves me. Those are the things I could never live without.