Rock-a-bye Baby

What a wonderful surprise I received this week.  Talk about a family heirloom, this bassinet is 57 years old.  My Great-Grandparents bought it for my Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Marie for the birth of their first baby--my Dad.  It has been the bassinet for more than a dozen of my family members.  All four of my Grandma's children slept in it, and their children's children--including ME--slept in this thing.  It is a white wicker wheeled wonderland, perfectly suited for a baby's first snooze, and I am so grateful to my Aunt Mary for taking such care to fix it up for our little one after years of being stored in her attic.  She made some repairs and renovations, and she even threaded blue ribbon through the eyelet lace (the last baby to sleep in it was a girl-my cousin Charlie, so she had to remove all the pink bows).  It's just so cute it made me cry.  Grandma Marie says that she loved having this bassinet.  She can remember pushing it back and forth with her feet, while reading sleepily as some of her little "night owls" stayed up way past their bedtimes.  I am so excited that our little one will be able to sleep right where his mommy once slept.  Thank you Grandma, and thank you Aunt Mary!  It is so special!