Childhood Attachments…

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

If you’ve been a blogger (or reader) on WordPress for a while, you probably know about the prompts that are on the home screen. This is the first one that caught my attention (although the one asking my opinions on meat was kind of interesting) and that I’ve posted about. So. Let’s get to it!

I think the things I was most attached to as a child were my blue knit blanket and my teddy bear named Rosalie.

Before I was born, my mom knitted me a baby blue blanket. It’s about the size of a lap quilt, and it is fluffy, warm, and soft. I slept with it for a long time. I’ve had it for all these years (wow that makes me sound really old!) and even though it’s getting ragged and worn, it’s still great for snuggling up with a book on cold days. One of the corners unraveled a few years ago, but my mom fixed it, and it’s still my favorite blanket.

As for the teddy bear, I haven’t had it quite as long. My brother got married when I was 7, and the wedding was in Tennessee. My family stayed at a house there, and there was a chair filled with teddy bears of all colors, shapes, and levels of adorable fluffiness. A piece of paper said you could take a bear if you wanted, which of course I did. However, none of the bears on the chair quite struck my fancy, but there was a bear on one of the beds that I loved. I snuck a random bear off the chair and swapped it out for the lovely fluffy one. I promptly named her Rosalie, and she’s been around ever since. Despite the dog using her as a chew toy, she is still mostly intact and sits on the chair in my room.

That’s it for today, I’ll be back one of these days with a post about…something. I’ll work on figuring that out haha. In the meantime, stay safe, stay joyful and have a wonderful day!

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