Toy Story
One of our readers (hi Keri!) referred to our current house as the older sister of our first house. The Barbie to our previous house’s Skipper if you will (a bit bigger and more mature, but still with that playful happy-go-lucky attitude). LOVE IT. In fact, from that moment on we’ve been referring to the old house as Skipper…
…. and the new one as Barbie (when we’re not calling it “Casa Petersik Dos” of course).
How great is the concept of kissing Barbie by the way? It works so well with the whole “house love” thing. Maybe we should change our tagline to “the house that kisses!” just like the slogan on the Barbie box. Or maybe not. That would be weird.
So there you have some random toy talk on a Thursday morning. Do you guys have nicknames for your old houses (or your current one)? John’s parents call all of their former homes by the street name (ex: “I always loved Apple Grove’s big tub”) while my friend prefers to give them all actual names like Hank, Farrah, and Mitch (she also names her cars). And of course there are people who call their house by the style (ex: “remember Split-Level’s cute kitchen backsplash?”). Let’s all share our house nicknames on this cold almost-Christmas day.
And speaking of Christmas, I’m off to bake some holiday cookies – but stay tuned for our Christmas card featuring none other than sweet Clara and cutie pie Burger hamming it up. This year’s card is totally our. favorite. ever.
Skipper image from here and Kissing Barbie image from here.
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My sister had that skipper doll!
I had the one that came with the cat, and to involve our brother, they got him the teenage boy one with the dalmatian :)
It worked out well. We played with him and his cars too. No harm :D
I think my sister even had the kissing Barbie? I just remember the flowers (not unless I am thinking they looked like the lego ones) and possibly remember the lipstick thing? Or was that another doll??