When
we first moved into our last place we didn’t have much to fill the space and it
took some time before we were able to make the small apartment comfortable.
Over time we accumulated a fair amount of stuff and by the time we finally got
out of that building we were able to fill much of our current house. In fact,
it was nice spreading things out across multiple rooms.
Since
we first hauled everything through the door it has, once again been a slow
accumulation of stuff. The vast majority of these new items were not optional
as we had a long list of things that our son was going to need both when he
arrived and soon after. It is safe to say that this has filled the rest of the
rooms and overall space that we gained when we moved here.
However,
of all the things that we have accumulated lately (more about that in a
separate post) there are a couple of items that are particularly meaningful to
us. As has been evident in many of the posts on this blog (another one is on
the way), family is very important to me and my wife. This is why we were
excited when my mom thoroughly cleaned the family bassinet so that we could use
it in our home (it has been around many cats over the years). My grandparents
bought the bassinet 75 years ago and it has been passed around the family ever
since providing a bed to countless relatives.
It
wasn’t until after our son arrived that we were given something from my wife’s
side of the family with the same kind of history behind it. My wife’s cousin
approached us and said that she had something very special for our son. As it
turns out my wife’s great grandmother had knitted a blanket over 40 years ago
for her cousin but, for one reason or another, it was never used. It was put
away in a closet for over four decades before they decided to give it to our
son.
The
two are now together… two families now one. We don’t hold on to many items that
carry so much history but it is nice to have just a few that we can use and,
more importantly, that our son can use. Now, every day, our son takes his naps
surrounded by both sides of his family and over 100 years of combined history.
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