Thursday night..Nov.24th...Well, the turkey has been gobbled and last crumbs of the pie scooped up. I'm back from St. Cloud, MN and having turkey day with my wonderful oldest son, his lovely wife and those 3 lively grandsons. Driven there in style by youngest son.

Kids are funny people..always amazes me. With all the possibilites in the world to choose from, what makes this oldest boy of mine happy, in regards to a couch potato quilt..i.e. snuggle quilt, is for it to be ALL flannel. He doesn't care about the colors, the size of the pieces, or mind the fact that I tie them for him. Just make sure it's all flannel, both sides and use a FAT batt. Really, really doesn't warm a quilter's heart..but it does warm a mothers. This is the newest all flannel quilt for him. He received it today..slightly late for his birthday..*G*..but that's me..a day late and a dollar short..*G* His wife approves of the colors. Since he doesn't care, I try to please her in that regard. And they are both thrilled with the really fat batt. All in all, they declared it perfect..*S*. So I'm happy. And just when you thought you had the best of it...he asks in a voice that reminds me of years and years ago...if maybe, please, could I take his "old" quilt (from his 30th birthday in 1999) home with me and "fix" it??? So I said of course, that's no problem.

So the new quilt is inspected and admired, and then he gets out his old one...it began with such a fat batt they called it the "coma quilt"...5 minutes under it and anyone was fast asleep..LOL. But now it is pathetically thin, looking like I had used a sheet blanket inside, faded, but not too badly, and in need of "patches", since it's more than just an opened seam.

So he is showing me, in detail, what he "hopes" I can do...and then with hesitation says, "I hope you can fix it, it's my most favorite of all the quilts". Now how can your heart possibly hold more than that, on this day of thanksgiving??