Don't you think it is a little bit ironic that one of my favorite dolls grownig up was this little black baby?
My first favorite doll however was a doll I had that I named Charm. I got her when I was about 5 years old. My dad brought her home to me one day after work. He found her laying in the street outside and picked her up to take her home for me. I was so sad for this little doll, after all she was an orphan. She was an old doll with ratty hair, no clothes and if i remeber right I think one of her eyes was even broken lol but my dad knew I would love her anyway. I immediatly got to work scrubbing her in the sink. She was very dirty. Her hair was pretty much ruined so me and my mom cut her hair and I was so anxious to go to the store and by her a doll wig and a dress. I know it is silly but Charm was so special to me because she didn't just come from the store, she was a lost doll and I felt like I had helped her out and saved her.
I got to thinking about all this the other day and I started thinking about how much I LOVED to watch movies when I was little. You can ask my mom and brother I was always watching movies, but I would watch the same ones over and over again. My old brother Jordan use to get a little annoyed by this haha.
But let me just list a few of my all time favorite childhood movies:
Annie - Little orphan annie grew up in an all girl orphanage with a mean house mother.
In the end she is adopted by a wealth family and saves her orphanage.
Matalida - Matalida was adopted into a mean family that
didn't really care about her but in the end she is adopted
by her teacher who truly cares for her.
Madaline - Madaline is the only orphan in her boarding school and is the
reason the boarding school can not shut down because they are her
only family.
The Little Princess- The little princess is about a little girl who grew up in Africa with her father, but when he is called off to war he is obligated to send her to London to stay at a boarding school while her father is away at war, her mother died when she was young, she then recieves news that her father
died at war and since she is left there as an orphan with no other family, she can no longer pay to live at the school. So the home mother makes her live in the attic with a colored servant girl who is also orphaned and they work in the school as maids. In the end her father turns out to
be alive and comes back for her and her friend to take them both
back to Africa to live happily ever after.
I can't tell you how many times I watched these 4 movies over and over again as a little girl, obviously even as a 6 year old I was intrigued by the orphan.
A few of my other favorites...
Babe (a piglet that has no one to call mom and ends up being
raised by the farmers sheep dog who's puppies were given away.)
The Fox in The Hound ( Todd the little fox whos mother is shot by the hunter is taken in
by an old women and big momma the owl.)
Cinderella (orphaned and left to live with her evil step mother and sisters.)
Jesus obviously gave me a heart for the orphan, even as a little girl.
Thank you Jesus for loving the orphan and allowing me to be your hands and feet.
My first favorite doll however was a doll I had that I named Charm. I got her when I was about 5 years old. My dad brought her home to me one day after work. He found her laying in the street outside and picked her up to take her home for me. I was so sad for this little doll, after all she was an orphan. She was an old doll with ratty hair, no clothes and if i remeber right I think one of her eyes was even broken lol but my dad knew I would love her anyway. I immediatly got to work scrubbing her in the sink. She was very dirty. Her hair was pretty much ruined so me and my mom cut her hair and I was so anxious to go to the store and by her a doll wig and a dress. I know it is silly but Charm was so special to me because she didn't just come from the store, she was a lost doll and I felt like I had helped her out and saved her.
I got to thinking about all this the other day and I started thinking about how much I LOVED to watch movies when I was little. You can ask my mom and brother I was always watching movies, but I would watch the same ones over and over again. My old brother Jordan use to get a little annoyed by this haha.
But let me just list a few of my all time favorite childhood movies:
Annie - Little orphan annie grew up in an all girl orphanage with a mean house mother.
In the end she is adopted by a wealth family and saves her orphanage.
Matalida - Matalida was adopted into a mean family that
didn't really care about her but in the end she is adopted
by her teacher who truly cares for her.
Madaline - Madaline is the only orphan in her boarding school and is the
reason the boarding school can not shut down because they are her
only family.
The Little Princess- The little princess is about a little girl who grew up in Africa with her father, but when he is called off to war he is obligated to send her to London to stay at a boarding school while her father is away at war, her mother died when she was young, she then recieves news that her father
died at war and since she is left there as an orphan with no other family, she can no longer pay to live at the school. So the home mother makes her live in the attic with a colored servant girl who is also orphaned and they work in the school as maids. In the end her father turns out to
be alive and comes back for her and her friend to take them both
back to Africa to live happily ever after.
I can't tell you how many times I watched these 4 movies over and over again as a little girl, obviously even as a 6 year old I was intrigued by the orphan.
A few of my other favorites...
Babe (a piglet that has no one to call mom and ends up being
raised by the farmers sheep dog who's puppies were given away.)
The Fox in The Hound ( Todd the little fox whos mother is shot by the hunter is taken in
by an old women and big momma the owl.)
Cinderella (orphaned and left to live with her evil step mother and sisters.)
Jesus obviously gave me a heart for the orphan, even as a little girl.
Thank you Jesus for loving the orphan and allowing me to be your hands and feet.
