Do the cabbage patch

Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.

The year I was 4 was the year of The Rise of the Cabbage Patch Dolls. Like every young girl with access to advertisements that year, I needed one more desperately than I needed air.

Maybe it was the fact that it was also the year that my parents divorced, but my family CAME THROUGH for me.

On Christmas morning, under the tree at my grandparents’ house, was PHOEBE.

And to the everlasting joy of my  totally-not-autistic-because-GIRLS-didn’t-have-autism-in-the-80s heart, every single other gift under the tree for me was outfits for her.

To this day, 40 years later, it stands out in my mind as the pinnacle of every gift I have ever received.

We won’t talk about the TEARS that came the next Christmas when my presents were not all of a theme…