オルゴール人形

These are the dolls with music boxes in it. They move when the music is playing. My mom had bought the same doll 10 years ago. When my aunts visited her some years ago, they liked it and wanted to get it, too. However, they could not find the same ones at any shop, neither could my mom. Mom had asked me to find these dolls to present them to my aunts. I had totally forgotten about this story, but came across these dolls in a shop in Shimosuwa the other day. Strange that I could find it easily in this countryside, but my aunts couldn't, though they live in Chiba and Yokohama. I bought the standing one and sitting one and mom sent them to my aunts. Do these dolls look something special? For me, they don't look so, just normal dolls. But my mom really wanted to present her sisters-in-law with these dolls, and my aunts were so happy to get "Super Cute Dolls". Sometimes I don't understand old women well.
My mother and her two sisters-in-law ( my dad's little sisters) are very close. They get closer and closer as they get older. Often talk on the phone, give presents to each other and sometimes travel together, which seems like they are real sisters. Mom doesn't have sisters, only one brother, so she seems happy to have good relationship with them. I am jealous about her. For a long time I've wanted to have sisters and had been looking forward to my brother getting married with a nice woman. But in real life I don't like my sister-in-law and can never imagine us traveling together. My mother is a lucky person.

下諏訪で偶然みつけたこのオルゴール人形は母がずっと探していたものでした。オルゴールの曲を流すとゆっくり優しく動きます。１０年ほど前に母が買ったこの人形は、ずっと実家のテレビの上に置いてありました。叔母達が家に来たときに、この人形をたいそう欲しがったそうで、母も同じ物をプレゼントしようとあちこち探し回ったそうです。都会に住む叔母達も、探したけれども見つからなかったようで「どこかで見かけたら買っておいてね」と母から頼まれていたのでした。長野・横浜・千葉の３箇所で探して見つからないものがあっさりこんな田舎で見つかったのも妙な話です。だいたい、どうしてこの人形にこだわるのか、この人形のどこがそんなにいいのか、私にはよくわからないんだけど、老人の心をつかむものがあるのでしょうか。早速私が二体購入し、母がそれを送ってやると叔母達は大喜びだったそうです。
母に女きょうだいはいませんが、父の妹であるこの２人の叔母と母はとても仲良しです。しょっちゅう電話で話したり、ことあるごとに何かを贈ったり、３人で旅行に行くこともあります。実の姉妹のように錯覚することもあるんだとか。　私も女きょうだいがいないので兄の結婚を楽しみにしていたけれど、実際義理の姉が出来てみると、気も合わないし好きにもなれず、旅行に行くなんて有り得ないって感じです。母がうらやましいなぁ。