kat,

Thank you so much for bringing back a memory to me. I too used to take great joy in some of my mothers things. I was probably 6 or 7 and I would go through her jewelry box and dream of the days when I would be able to "dress up" and wear necklaces and ear rings. But her most prized possesion to me was her many hankies. So many different colors and decorations. Some plain, some edged in lace, some embroidered. I would unfold them and spread them all out on her bed, and then fold them all back up again as neatly as I could. Years ago she gave me what she had left becuase she had long since gone to the modern route of the kleenex. She passed away in 1996 but I still have these hankies safely stored in my dresser drawer and occasionally take them out just to remember.

TheMuse