(Note: Macie Hoag is a senior at Iola High School.)
One of my favorite Christmas memories over the years was in 2012. I would have been seven years old and obsessed with Barbies.
Probably everything on my list was Barbie related, but what was on the top was a Holiday Barbie. I wanted the one with blonde hair and blue eyes so I would match it. Her hair was all curled and swept to one side; her dress was red with a big bow and sparkly details, and she also had a big necklace.
Every year after Christmas morning we would go over to my Mimi’s house and have dinner. There were always nuts, homemade sugar cookies from the Hoag family recipe book, no-bake cookies, and lots of other food.
We always ate before we opened presents. After we all had finished we then went to the living room to open them.
When I unwrapped the gift containing the Holiday Barbie I was ecstatic. I had a bit of a track record with cutting my barbie dolls’ hair and losing their shoes, but I promised that with this doll it would be different.
Now, I wasn’t the person who left their Barbie in the box, but I kept my promise and took good care of that doll. I still have it packed away today in a closet, 10 years later with no hair or shoes missing.
