Heirlooms

Does your family have items that have been passed from generation to generation and have you ever wondered what was the story associated with that treasured memory? When I was a child during the summer me and my siblings and sometimes my cousins would stay with our grandparents in Texas they lived in a small city in Midland Texas across the railroad tracks we would usually leave around 7 pm at night when it was starting to get dark in our red station wagon with the seats down laying in the back looking at the stars. When we arrived it was usually breakfast and my grandmother would have a spread on the table with homemade biscuits, bacon, sausage, eggs, milk, and orange juice. We would play in the backyard and swing on the swing set for hours at a time and at night we would play hide-in-seek. As a child, I didn't notice that my grandmother was a quilter she made quilts for us at Christmas time. A big box would arrive with quilts she had made for each one of us and other goodies like sugar cookies and candy lifesavers. My sister-in-law Crandallyn makes beautiful quilts as well and I think this tradition of quilt making is a family heirloom that can be passed from generation to generation. Patricia Polacco is a children's book author and illustrator who wrote "The Keeping Quilt" is a book about her family's migration to the United States and the family she left in the UK. Is their a family heirloom that you cherish? Write to about it, I would love know.

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