Do you remember?

I received a catalog in the mail today. That, in and of itself, isn't too surprising. I think the lady who lived in this apartment before me must have bought everything through catalogs because, over this past year I have found an amazing variety of catalogs in my mail, even a horse fancier's catalog. But the catalog that came today is very special - not because of the size or contents - but because of the memories it evoked. It's a Christmas catalog and not just any Christmas catalog, it's a Montgomery Ward catalog. This is a fairly skinny catalog, 86 pages, but the front pages are pages of toys. As I flipped through it, admiring doll houses, dolls, trains, trucks, robots and more I found my self flashing back to the Christmas catalogs of my childhood. They were at least an inch thick and packed with pictures and descriptions of fabulous toys, clothes, furniture, appliances, artificial Christmas trees and other Christmas decorations, dishes, pots and pans, tools, bicycles, ice and roller skates and just about anything else you can imagine. A lot of hours were spent dreaming and wishing over those catalogs. Thanks for the memories Montgomery Ward.