Thursdays Question of the Day 1.23.13

I was thinking about a recent QotD where it asked what's your oldest family heirloom is..

My question is.. What's the most sentimental value item you have in your home? Not money value, but sentimental?

I have this elephant sculpture that my grandmother painted herself.. tusks broke off, but I still love it. It reminds me of her, and her old home where I used to see it sitting on a mirrored hutch.

It has to be my Dad's diary that he had when he was in the Navy during WW2

Grandma's braided rugs. So much time and effort put into those rugs and by now they are decades and decades old. I don't put them on the floor anymore; I have one draped over an old rocking chair (more about that rocking chair later) and one is draped over a rocking chair in the living room.

Also, Grandma's old rocking chair. That was the rocking chair that I would rock myself to sleep in at night when I stayed with Grandma when I was a little girl. I'd fall asleep watching tv and she'd pick me up and carry me to bed. Every night. I love that old chair. When she left her home and moved into the trailer, she made sure I got the chair, simply because it was mine to have. It's back in the computer room. It needs to be re-caned now; nobody can sit in it anymore.

There's not just one item, but several small things my late brother gave me as gifts or that I took from his apartment after he died.