Oh, the hours I would dream!\u00a0 Perusing each and every page, often with my little brother at my side, we would wish and hope for all types of gems and treasures.\u00a0 Years ago I wrote about the Bye Lo Baby that I wished and waited for two years to receive.\u00a0 Looking at those glossy pages was something I remember fondly, but other than a few specialty ones, my children live in a world where they don\u2019t know the jubilation of the arrival of the toy catalog.<\/p>\n
Still a true kid at heart (and one who desires to be childlike in her faith daily), I have had to resort to dragging my children to toy stores for nefarious reasons \u2013 just to see what is new in the toy world. The experience is no catalog dream fest, but it is the closest thing I have found as a substitute. To be honest, we don\u2019t need any toys; so, my trip is rarely about buying anything.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Those aisles are portals back to innocent days of long ago where I can imagine playing with each item that brings a smile.<\/p>\n
So it was on a particularly amazing weekend, I found myself and my curly-headed bundle of energy marching through the aisles of a Toys-R-Us.\u00a0 Just like her mom years ago, the Lego aisle was among our stops.\u00a0 She has found\u00a0enjoyment with\u00a0the new Lego Friends sets designed for girls. (As a science and math teacher, I will interject that they are just as awesome as the \u201cboy\u201d Legos, and I love how one set has a tiny blackboard emblazoned with a geometry problem. Yay!)<\/p>\n
Looking to see what new sets were available for her visions of sugar plums, my eyes fell upon the new Heartlake High.\u00a0 What happened next probably stunned all shoppers in the vicinity as well as perhaps scarred my mini-me for life.\u00a0 Yep \u2013 right there in the store \u2013 I let out a yelp of exhilaration!<\/p>\n
These Lego sets are built on the fundamental idea that girls are relational and as more sets are created, more characters to Heartlake City are added to the story. That\u2019s my girl\u2019s favorite part \u2013 checking to see if she has that character yet. Well, if you are going to build a high school, you need a teacher, and much to my delight, there she was – the high school teacher, Ms. Stevens, who looks an awful lot like me.\u00a0 Now, dancing for joy, I was prancing around singing, \u201cOh yeah, I am a Lego!\u201d repetitively.<\/p>\n
When I flipped the box over and saw that she appears to be a science teacher complete with telescope (I have one of those) and an owl in her classroom (Are you kidding me?\u00a0 For years I had a snowy owl in mine!).\u00a0 Tears flowed down my cheeks. At this point, imagine my husband\u2019s shock, when I brought the box to him (still teary-eyed) saying, \u201cMy life is complete! I’m a Lego!\u201d Normally, he is the giant kid in our household; so, I think my effusive gushing caught him off guard.<\/p>\n![\"Lego](\"http:\/\/kandynolesstevens.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/lego-1.jpg\")
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