The author reflects on her childhood love for the 'Little House on the Prairie' episode 'Christmas at Plum Creek', detailing how she identified with the character Half-Pint and her desire for a simple life on the farm.
Certainly that has been my secret, fondest wish ever since I was little and seriously obsessed with one very specific episode of
This was the year Half-Pint and her older sister Mary were trying to figure out what to get Ma and Pa for Christmas. The notion that children would ever be more worried about what to get their parents for Christmas than their own gifts strikes me now as quaint and adorable. That is the thinking of a cynical woman, a grown person who is now more of a mother than a daughter.
I remember it now, that feeling of wanting to be the person to give my mom something no one else had given her. When I watched Half-Pint sell her beloved pony to Mr. Oleson so that Nelly could claim him as her own, I understood her. She did it so she could buy Ma a new wood stove. I might not have done that because I desperately wanted a pony, name TBD, but I felt it in my bones what it was to want for my mother. And what it was to never be able to afford what I wanted.
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