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Why I Hate Polly Pockets

 

Whoever invented Polly Pockets was not the mother who would be changing the clothes of these minuscule nuisances.  My three-year-old comes to me multiple times a  day to get a little rubber skirt pulled off and another one put on.  It takes me forever to manipulate those stupid little things. And the shirts are worse!  Who can get those toothpick-size arms into a rubber shirt?

Yesterday I decided I was done.  It is time for Keila to put Polly Pocket’s clothes on all by herself.  She wasn’t thrilled with this development.  In fact, she dropped her head and screamed, “I CAAAAAN’T DO IT!”

You know, I think I’m like Keila more than I would like to admit.  I come to God multiple times a day to fix things that He thinks I am ready to deal with.  “God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation” (James 1: 12). Yet I keep coming to my Father asking Him to fix it.

My daily requests:

  • I can’t do it by myself
  • Make it go away
  • I am too tired
  • I am too weak
  • I can’t, I can’t, I can’t

The visual I have now is that to my Father I am a crying three-year-old who just doesn’t want to try. It is so much easier to have your mom or dad dress your Polly Pockets.  And it is so much easier for me when God just removes my obstacles.  Yet, I don’t look any more like Him at the end of the day.

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.  And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. Romans 5:3-4

May 3, 2012Serena
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Comments: 5
  1. Kristi
    11 years ago

    Ouch. Thank you.

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  2. Trish Preston
    11 years ago

    Yes. I agree. There is definitely a tantrum throwing three year old inside me. And Polly Pockets are a nightmare.
    Yes.

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  3. babs
    10 years ago

    hi!!!!…sorry i LOVE polly pockets! anyway I was wondering where did you get the picture of the 2 blonde polly pockets st the top and do you know what the set was called??? i have been searching for it for ages I really want to buy it i used to have it but was broken and lost long ago!!!!! THANKS!:)

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    • Serena
      10 years ago

      Ha! I just got a stock photo.
      Sorry I am not more help 🙂

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  4. Anatikd
    8 years ago

    Why does a three-year-old have Polly Pockets anyway? I didn’t get mine until I was old enough to change their clothes on my own, probably seven or eight years old. I definitely wouldn’t give one to a child younger than three…way too many small parts.

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