The Quilt

Tonight I stopped by my parent's house to check on things while they are out of town. It is always fun to step back into my old home, see the order in my mom's world and feel the calmness as I step through the back door.

While we were there, my child wandered upstairs and into my old bedroom. She loves to play up there...there are wonders to behold for a five year old. Truthfully, I love to hang out up there too whenever the opportunity arises. It is a comforting place for me. There are treasures that I packed away long ago in the closets and every once in a while I like to spend time taking the memories out and shifting through them.

There have been times that I have retreated to that room this year while looking after the house as my parents travel. I have driven there in the middle of the night and spent an morning or two, pulling up the quilt that rests at the end of the bed and just finding some peace and comfort.

Tonight, as we were getting ready to leave, my sweet girl came down the stairs bringing the quilt from the bottom of the bed with her. She wanted to bring it with us so she could cuddle with it. I guess she had a fond remembrance of it from the past week when we had to spend the night at my parent's house after our air conditioner broke. She and I shared the bed upstairs and sometime during the night it got a little cool, I picked up the quilt from the rack at the bottom of the bed and wrapped the two of us up in it. We were cuddly warm and cozy.

I let her bring the quilt home. She rode home cuddled in it and then spent some time on the couch this evening watching tv and being bundled in this pretty quilt that belongs to my mom. I am sitting here writing this blog with quilt pulled up on me...it is like a warm hug. I supposed now that I have put this in print and admitted that we "stole" the quilt, I will have to put it back. But for the next day or so, I am gonna feel its warmth and the peace and comfort of my favorite quilt, here in my own home tonight.

Living Happily in the Moment,
bev