Comments on: Voting and Blog minutia

By: Jody

Jody — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:33:59 +0000

The preemie versions are especially disturbing. There are versions that have no relationship to actual preemies (they’re just tinier versions of healthy full-term babies) and then there are the ones that actually do approximate what a premature baby looks and feels like — and that’s almost worse.

And yet, there’s part of me that can’t believe that my kids were ever as small as their preemie clothes — or the photos of their tiny heads in my hands — suggest, and I suppose a reproduction would bring it all back.

of course, that’s the FREAKY part of me.

[I'm not early voting because I want to cast that ballot on the day, as part of a nod to history. Then again, I live in a quiet precinct, and the kids are off school that day, so we can go early and I can hope that they remember this election, at least vaguely.]

By: Lilian

Lilian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:05:51 +0000

Wow, I didn’t come visit for some days and now there are so many changes!! I like the looks of the blog.

Now, about the dolls, thanks for the link. My husband’s aunt (his mom’s brother’s wife) is addicted to those dolls and I was absolutely creeped out by the photos that she posted online months ago. One day my SIL and I counted the dolls, she has 16 of them and a whole WARDROBE of matching outfits, pacifiers, everything. I thought she was literally going crazy, but then lately I noticed that she’s posting even more photos (you would throw up just reading the labels in “baby voice” that she writes) and that lots of other women are commenting on them! So, good to know it’s a trend, and that she’s not really “sick” (or, if she is, she’s in good company, it seems). Oh, and I’ve gotten used to the pictures by now (them floating in the pool, sitting in the sun, hugging each other, etc…).

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:49:35 +0000

The picture of the pieces of lifelike baby on a platter were the worst.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:16:03 +0000

I think those dolls are sorta scary. And the grown women who play with them are a bit ummm…different, lol. : )

About the template, am sorta glad you went back to your one with the family eating a meal, I like that one best, although the other one wasn’t bad either. : ) Oh yeah, you asked what browser. I go through….I go through internet explorer. And just to let ya know. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I had a really bad time commenting on your blog and a few from typepad and *especially* wordpress, too. My comments were going straight to their spam folders. However my comments to blogspot, went through just fine. Then all on it’s own it just started working again. Go figure. : )

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:36:30 +0000

I have mixed feelings about the reborn dolls. I’ve seen them for sale on eBay for a couple years now, and while the idea of owning and/or collecting them doesn’t appeal to me at all, and while I agree it is somehow creepy that grown women treat them like little babies, I think they are a pretty amazing work of art. The degree of skill and talent that it takes to so perfectly render the skintones and features of an infant really does inspire awe in me, and once you’ve seen some of the lesser quality reborn dolls you can appreciate the high end dolls all the more. I especially admire anybody who can make a whole business out of creating and selling them, but at the same time, if I ever did buy one it would be for a little girl who wanted an extra-special, especially lifelike baby doll, and not for a grown woman who wanted to act like a little girl!