The 'New' Bedroom Set

When I was about ten or eleven years old, my parents bought me a new bedroom set. It was very special to me. We went to several stores in Topeka to find some furniture.. but they didn't have anything I liked. I wanted white wicker.. and nothing else. So, one evening after my parents got home from work, we drove all the way to Kansas City to look for one. It was a thrill because we rarely went to Kansas City.. I got to stay up late.. and I would soon be done with my hand-me-down furniture that looked like it could implode at any given moment. I was so excited once my white wicker furniture arrived. Everyone who came over 'got' to see it. I absolutely loved it. Twenty years later that same bedroom set now sits in Piper's room. Craig and I put it in there recently. When we were cleaning it up for her, it was funny to think back on all the little markings that are on it today. When I got my Laura Ashley bedding (a huge deal back in the 80's.. it was like wearing Izod when you were a kid) I proudly displayed the Laura Ashley stickers on the side of my dresser. Part of those stickers are still there (we are working on removing them.. they're not so cool today!). When I was in middle school I taped up pictures of my friends on the hutch above my desk.. when I took down the pictures, a little bit of paint peeled off with it. It's still there. On one of the shelves I used to have a tiny little black and white TV that only got one or two channels.. and only if the antenna was placed in just the right spot. The scratches from moving the TV around to get a decent signal are still there. It's funny to see Piper so excited about 'her new' bedroom set. She too takes everyone up to see it when they come over. I wonder what marks she'll make on it. The memories she'll have from it. Today I just laid in her (my) bed thinking about all those marks and what they represented. New memories that Piper and I will share together.