Just when I think I've seen it all--Maddie does it again! Yesterday when I went over to Maddie's for a little visit, she greeted me with the news that "a hole came in mama's blanket!" As I was telling her that we could sew it up, my daughter broke in to tell me the whole story...
Years ago, when my daughter and son-in-law got married, they received several sets of sheets as gifts. Would you believe every set was beige? Well, one of the sets was a very high thread count, and were extremely soft. My daughter loved those sheets so much, that she's used them over and over for nearly ten years! Finally, the inevitable has happened--some holes wore into the sheets where my son-in-law rubs his foot each night.
When changing the sheets yesterday, my daughter discovered the holes. She decided it was finally time to discard the well-worn sheets, and she put them into the trash can.
Upon seeing her mother discarding the sheets, Maddie began to cry and beg her to not to throw the sheet away. Brandy left the room, only to return and find Maddie, with part of the sheet pulled out of the trash can, rubbing it on her little face, while sucking her finger...Brandy's heart melted.
She did what any good mother would do--and removed the sheet from the trash can! Then she called her mother-in-law and asked if she might be able to make Maddie a little blanket out of part of the sheet. (Her mother-in-law makes blankets for gifts.) Wasn't that sweet? Who would have thought that a sheet could mean so much to a four-year-old! It just goes to show--you never know what is special to our little ones!
4 comments:
That is a sweet story. I'm glad that part of it will be saved for Maddie! Diana
What a cute story.. have her grandma make a sleeping bag for Maddie's doll with part of the "holy sheet"..Baba
Heart-tugging story! And what a good idea from Baba! It is not just little ones who become attached to well-worn bed linens. A friend's teenaged son loved his almost threadbare sheets that were oh so soft. When his grandmother moved into an apartment they built for her connected with their home, she "helped" -- unasked -- with laundry and threw the beloved --and to her disgraceful -- sheets away. The young man survived with great disappointment but without the tears and finger sucking. Every age brings its challenges, doesn't it?
this is a very sweet and touching story. thank goodness for moms and grandmothers to a little girl's needs. take care rose
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