2020 - Christmas Beauties of the Day #21 - Peter's Baby Booties and Quilt
By all admissions, this is probably the hardest of my Christmas posts to write.
Eleven years ago at this very moment, son Peter was fighting for his life at Celebration Hospital in Florida. It was a Monday.
Three hours later, he would be gone.
But as I look at our tree and our surroundings, you will always be able to tell that we had a child by that name - a child who would not live past age thirty.
He was born in April, and the little green booties were made for him by a member of our local congregation. They hang on the tree as a reminder that he and our other three children were absolute gifts from God. We could not have received greater gifts than the four of them.
The second is a quilt made by my mom and dad. Peter would have been about eight months old when they stopped by our house with this quilt. All of the babies in our house have been snuggled in this quilt. Kerry held it up for me to take this photo last night, and I later looked at the detail in the binding that they sewed on. I still have the Necchi sewing machine they used to stitch it.
As every Christmas rolled around, we would spend quiet candle time in the evenings reading stories, listening to music, or watching special holiday television shows. Whoever the baby was that year was the one that was snuggled. I would wrap them up like a little burrito and wonder if it was anything like the swaddling clothes used to wrap baby Jesus.
I'm going to say probably not.
It is still in good shape, even after forty-one years and lots of "kid stuff" happening to it.
And, it is quite meaningful today - especially today.
#ChristmasBeautyoftheDay
#LightTheWorld
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