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Excuse Me, But Do You Have Butterscotch?
By Polly | December 4, 2006
Someone needs to talk to my 4 year old. She obviously doesn’t understand my quest for a Frazzle Free Christmas. One bright early morning she came bounding into me exclaiming that she was also going to ask Santa for Butterscotch, the FurReal Pony. You know the one that eats carrots? I said sure we can let Santa know that you want Butterscotch, no big deal. Right? After all 4 year olds have a habit of changing their minds as often as they change underwear and how big a deal would it be to get a horse named Butterscotch. So I kept quiet for a couple of days, waiting to see if Butterscotch was going to stick and sure enough that is all she could talk about. So I calmly set myself down in front of the computer and the phone to find a Butterscotch nearby or on-line and was shocked to find that Butterscotch was $299 and was unavailable everywhere! So within a matter of minutes I went from a calm frazzle free mother to panicking over how I would explain it to my daughter, who was talking about Butterscotch constantly, my hesitation over Butterscotch. We started with it is an awful big gift and Santa only has so much room in his sleigh and not every child can get a Butterscotch to trying to convince her that Butterscotch also poops out the carrots and she would have to clean up its mess everyday. The pooping part almost worked, but in the end she persisted and continued to ask for Butterscotch. So against my better judgment, I started calling stores everywhere asking, “Excuse Me, but do you have Butterscotch, the FurReal Pony?” Everywhere the answer was the same, no Butterscotch and no idea if they would be getting any in stock. I had my sisters and brothers looking in their local stores two states away hoping to find Butterscotch out of state and still no luck. All this time she was getting more and more excited. Telling everyone she was asking Santa for Butterscotch, “it eats carrots” she would exclaim. In the end I was one of the lucky 5 people who was able to get one on-line at Toys R Us and ended up more frazzled than I had planned. She better really love this pony…
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