Darren, Thank you for sharing your story. Its beautiful. Also it helps everyone else go down that same memory lane. I think your quilt Pieces of the Past is going to be lovely and more valuable to you than winning a lotto. You just can't buy memories or love. Now you can work with a whole pile of "love'.. a treasure to be sure. Makes me wish I had not been so pragmatic in distributing to charity all my families items. I am a get rid of it if you don't use it type person but when I read your post I think.. if only I had.. so I will create this type of memory for my own children and maybe they will experience this sense of wonder and thoughtful retrospect like you are right now. See, your gift is a gift too..