Further to the drama about T1’s collection of soft toys, I now present to you what we did and how the story ended. T1’s bears are like shoes to me. But as much as I love my shoes, I had to bite the bullet (PAINFUL!!! Have you ever tried?!) and gave away close to fifty pairs, keeping only the most expensive (even though I can never wear them again) only because they are still in mint condition and I just can’t bear to part with them just yet. I gave a pair of Ferragamo heels to one of my brothers girlfriends and then they broke up. I only wish I could have them shoes back. Blek!

So how did T1 accumulate so many bears? Really, I have no idea. The Hubs and I have bought her less than a handful of bears and even then, they were momentous. So really, the rest of them fury things were from friends and family…..and competition wins, and maybe even stolen.

Underneath this pile are the BIG ones. The Hubs was saying that he wondered which lucky kid would get the big red dog that is bigger than T2. And then there is the big bear, also larger than T2 and frightens the living daylights out of her. Just kidding.

Well, T2 does look strangely at the big brown blob of mass that remotely resembles her, yet doesn’t. She looks at it very, very hard deciding if it is friend or foe.

And whilst I’ve worked so hard to be brutal and detached from all these creatures, the Hubs (and he is least likely to do this) suddenly bursts out asking, “What about Paddington Bear? Are you givng away Paddington Bear?”

I nodded frowningly. Hell yeah! They’re all going. Sentimental or not, we’ve got photographs for reminiscence!

“But you CAN’T give away Paddington Bear!!???!!!!”

“Why not?”

“Because he’s Paddington Bear and we have to save him for T2!!”

HUH?

I couldn’t believe this grown man was getting all sentimental on me and now I’m not sure what to do with the bears that have a story.

Paddington Bear, the iconic British bear, was carried all the way from London by Tok-Tok when T1 was very young but even before that, T1 had already large Paddington Bear stickers on her bedroom wall telling a story. I remember her younger days lying in bed together, gazing and mixing up the sequencing of Paddinton Bear stickers on her wall, randomly creating what Paddington Bear did each day……..so fun.

Right, I’ve just this very minute been to the Paddington Bear website and discovered that ONE UNIT OF PADDINGTON BEAR costs Pound Sterling Fifty Five!!! Perhaps we should keep him for T2 after all. Yikes! What a rip off?! Now I know why the Hubs is all sentimental about Paddington Bear. He certainly knows his bears.

We finally shortlisted 16 bears that we’d keep purely for sentimental reasons. Starting from extreme left, the wide eyed doll with the big white bow on her head was a gift from a friend of mine from London who said the doll reminded her of me and she just had to get it. The doll is wearing a silver sequinned leotard and black knee high leather boots! To those of you who say I am so different in real life than my writing…..I guess you don’t know me that well yet, huh?!

Paddington Bear is beside her and next to PB, is Brownie with the even darker brown ears. Brownie was mine since I was 3 years old and has fallen into a huge Cheras drain. He is now blind but T1 says she wants to keep him because it was Mommy’s bear since Mommy was little *heart melts*

On top of Brownie in red is a little devil, which was the first ever soft toy T1 had in her crib at the hospital. It was a devil I’d bought from Teddy Tales which squealed I LOVE YOU whenever you pressed its belly. I thought it was real cute.

Next to the devil, the blue puppy, also belonged to me since I was a teenager; along with the pink bear right in front of Paddington Bear. These two were my favourite bears since my teens and stayed with me from boyfriend to boyfriend until I married the Hubs. They were my Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, my security buddies, and as soon as I married the Hubs, they were kicked out of our bedroom.

The pink furry dog below the blue puppy was a gift to T1 from the Hubs’ Japanese friend when we were invited by astronaut Aki Hoshide during his launch to space. She doesn’t know him very well at all but it serves as a reminder of our spectacular, rocketfying month in the US.

The yellow duck on top right with the black sunglasses is a duck that I’d begged for a whole month an ex- client of mine from India to give me, just because. Yeah, just because. When I finally got it, I was over the moon. And now T1 wants to keep it because, well, because it’s a cute duck……

Below the duck is a pink camel from Daddy when he returned from the Middle East. Below the pink camel is a Kahloo bear that Godpa Dave gave T1 from New York. On the left of the camel which you can barely see, is a lamb from my cousins in Oz to T1 that snores. It’s damn cute, the lamb snores for quite a long time when you press its leg and it actually puts kids to sleep! And last but not least, because I’m tired already, is a few bits and bobs of furry things given to T1 by her best friends, one (the grey dog) of whom she named Joshie as it was from???

Nite-Nite or Good Morning, depending on which part of the world you’re at. Have a great day today/tomorrow.

It’s Friday the 13th!!! Jeng-Jeng-Jeng.

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