The Maid Was In
It finally happened. We had a girl in the house, our ten-year-old niece Catherine who was visiting with her family for a day, and she actually played with my dollhouse. I didn’t know it at the time, but a few days later when I went into the spare room where she had slept, I discovered her handiwork. For years I’ve been trying to get children to play with my dollhouse but it had fallen into chaotic disrepair because the children in my life are boys with no 
attention span for dollhouse playing. I’ve never understood how these boys that I mention love super hero action figures but won’t play with dolls in houses. They won’t admit that their figures are dolls, and I learned early not to call them that because they are insulted by the suggestion.
The picture to the right is some of the riff raff that Catherine evicted from the house. Now if I can just get someone as neat as Catherine to help me with the rest of my house.
Post Note: The dollhouse was a fantasy-come-true gift from Joe for Christmas about 10 years ago. He knew when I was a girl that I always wanted a dollhouse but never had one.
June 12th, 2015 1:29 pm
My heart is happy thinking of your sweetheart giving you that gift! It is too bad Catherine didn’t ask you to play with her ;>).
I thought of you the other day. Our local paper is a USA Today affiliate (not my favorite paper in the world, but the Sunday travel section is nice). Last week it had a feature on the best Southern Small Towns – and Floyd was one of them, toward the top of the list. Probably because of the lovely people who live there, don’t you think?
June 12th, 2015 1:47 pm
I heard that we were on that list. There are lots of reasons why Floyd is a cool town, including the people, the mountain countryside, the art, cool shops and music traditions.
June 12th, 2015 1:58 pm
My father has built my daughter one of the loveliest of doll houses which she rarely used. I keep it and want to repair it and my granddaughter, like her mother, has no interest.
June 12th, 2015 5:10 pm
Must have been a generational thing …like paper dolls!
June 13th, 2015 7:41 am
Such a sweet post. I built my own dollhouse from a kit when I was about 20, and eventually gave it to a young cousin. I don’t know what happened to it from there.
But I wouldn’t mind building another one.