The Korean Chest

Dear Mom,

Dad and Alecia drove over last weekend and brought with them some items from home for me. One of them being the Korean chest. Dad called and asked a few weeks ago if I wanted it and I said yes, but not really sure if I did want it. Asian really isn't my decorating style preference for my house, but I didn't want it sold to some stranger, like Dad did with the piano (the piece of furniture I really wanted). So he brought it over along with the statue of the little girl catching a butterfly and your Delft collection. Well, I almost cried when Dad and Eric carried in the Korean chest. It was such a prominent piece of furniture in our house for so long and I love that it is now in mine. I remember looking though the drawers with years and years of unorganized pictures contained inside, looking in the bottom drawer for the little "surprises" you kept hidden in there, and I love the distinct sound of the doors opening and shutting. It sounds like home. It's currently in our empty front room, but I'm sure we'll have a special place for it in the next house. I feel like I have a little bit of our home in my home now and with that comes a little bit of you.