#SentimentalSunday

sen·ti·men·tal
/ˌsen(t)əˈmen(t)l/
adjective
of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

When my youngest was just about a year and a half old we took a trip to Ohio. I was in the local Walmart with her one day - in the baby aisle - and while she was sitting in the cart I turned to another side of the aisle to look for something. When I turned back I saw she had reached out and grabbed a purple kitty from the racks. And not only was she playing with the kitty, she was chewing and sucking on it. Needless to say we bought the kitty and it became a part of our family. 

That kitty was well loved. So well loved that when she started to show the love my youngest gave her I started to search out a replacement. It had to be the same exact one, however, and switched out at just the right time. But the kitty had been discontinued and was no longer being made. Uh-oh. So I cast a wider search net and found one. I bought it and set my plan for the great switch out into motion. It worked, the youngest never knew until a few years later when she looked up in the closet and saw the original purple kitty staring out at her from the memory box. She looked at the one in her hand and the one in the box and couldn't quite understand. 

Since the purple kitties we have moved on to Orangen kitties but every so often the youngest, and I confess me as well, needs to visit with the purple kitties who live in the memory box. Oh gosh, I love to remember the sweetness of my youngest loving on her first kitty and the innocent love she had for it. 

It makes me all mushy gushy inside.