It has been a project of mine to get Mary’s furniture/artwork on Ebay. During the course of this, a piece of sentimental value was purposed to be put up for auction. For most of you this will probably come as a shock, others have pieced my past writings together, and some of you I have told or have known all along.

In April of 2005 Christopher & I happily discovered I was pregnant. He/She would’ve been born in December/January. I experienced signs of a miscarriage early on, but I wasn’t diagnosed to have had a miscarriage until July. Although there’s a lot more to the story, I wish to save it for later. I merely wanted to fill in the gap, as to why a baby high chair would be of sentimental value.

During the months I was pregnant, or thought I was, eager preparation was taking place. Mary was wonderful enough to take me out for crochet, quilting and sewing supplies. She gave me a few pointers, and then off I crafted! In the meanwhile Mary crocheted a baby sweater, sewed one of her signature blankets, and began to paint a high chair for our baby.

Shortly after the miscarriage, Mary completed the baby high chair. After that it went to baby stores and the Gem Show in Tucson, as a display of her artwork. Mary first put a price tag on the chair at the Gem Show, and more recently for Ebay.

I had been so scared it would sell. Regardless of whether I miscarried, Christopher and I still envisioned every child of ours growing in and out of that chair. We had planned to hold onto it from the start, and that hadn’t changed.

Christopher asked for the high chair, from his Mom, for his upcoming 22nd birthday. Which, in its own way, was almost better than the marriage purposal. It made me both teary and cheery.

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