Make Something Old New Again

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This old gal…

Came across some extra treasured treasures…quilts…cute quilts…cute baby quilts from when that first daughter of mine was born…

Tucked away for years…waiting…waiting for the day that maybe they’d be wanted…passed down…cherished as much as they were by young-mama-me…

And that’s when the struggle began…the Tik Tok struggle…those clips of kids making a joke about not wanting their mom’s stuff…not wanting what’s in that old memory box…

So played it cool…sent a photo…gave details…the patchwork quilt a gift from a friend…the other one hand crafted by that grandmother of theirs…

Kept it light with, ‘No pressure. If you want these, I’ll send them. Blah blah blah’…added a funny photo of an old Mickey Mouse T-shirt from the 80’s…make it look like it’s not all about the cherished baby blankets…

And within seconds came the reply…not from that sweet mother-to-be, but from her sister…her younger sister…her crafty, younger sister who knew just what to say…

“These are beautiful,” she said, “and so special. Send them to me and if she doesn’t use them for blankets I will repurpose them into something else—like a tote bag or something.”

Repurpose them into something else…make something old new again…

And so it is…in life…see something with new eyes…a friendship…a relationship…two baby blankets from days gone by…

And maybe that Mickey Mouse T-shirt…packed in that box with those quilts…a gift to that baby girl of mine who treasures treasures about as much as that mother of hers…
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And that daughter of mine…agrees…