Detail from the picture below. It's another of my favorite things decorating our home.
This kimono was given to me by my mother-in-law. It was part of her hope chest, handmade by her mother more than 50 yrs ago! There were several kimono, a couple of hapi coats (small vests, really) several blankets (when Dan was a boy, I sent the never used pink one to Gary's cousin for her daughter). Our boys wore the less-fancy items, but I saved these as art. I just remembered Andy's much-beloved blanky came from that box! It started its life as a mint green flannel blanket with little red-hatted children. Now, the remnants of it are saved in a ziplok bag for 'someday.' When these came to me, they'd been in a box for 35 years. I love seeing them every day - such tangible gifts of love for children not even born when they were made.
This is the smaller of the two -- both ceremonial and somewhere, I'm sure, I'll find a picture of Gary in at least one of them as a tiny child. My mother in law, for all her organizational skills has boxes of unsorted pictures (who doesn't, tho?).
Detail from the picture below. It's another of my favorite things decorating our home.
This kimono was given to me by my mother-in-law. It was part of her hope chest, handmade by her mother more than 50 yrs ago! There were several kimono, a couple of hapi coats (small vests, really) several blankets (when Dan was a boy, I sent the never used pink one to Gary's cousin for her daughter). Our boys wore the less-fancy items, but I saved these as art. I just remembered Andy's much-beloved blanky came from that box! It started its life as a mint green flannel blanket with little red-hatted children. Now, the remnants of it are saved in a ziplok bag for 'someday.' When these came to me, they'd been in a box for 35 years. I love seeing them every day - such tangible gifts of love for children not even born when they were made. 
This is the smaller of the two -- both ceremonial and somewhere, I'm sure, I'll find a picture of Gary in at least one of them as a tiny child. My mother in law, for all her organizational skills has boxes of unsorted pictures (who doesn't, tho?).
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