Bedside Tables

Bedside Tables Blackbird's Show and Tell Theme Courtesy of Pomegranates and Paper My bedside table is one of two in a matching set of furniture my husband and I purchased when we married. It is solid cherry in the "Savannah" style. I love the way it is 'aged' so as not to look brand new. On the top of my nightstand are: My Bible, a candle, an antique pill box of silver with a knights head in relief which contains a lock of my husband's hair from our time of courting, a crystal clock given to me by my daughter when she was 7 and an only child as a mother's day gift, my wedding ring because when I am home I bang it around when I am doing projects and it begins to irritate my finger, the cord for charging my cell phone, my address book, a notebook and a small box of note cards, a horseshoe given to me by my husband on Valentine's day for good luck in our new house and farm, and a metal basket filled with the cards and letters from my husband and homemade cards the children have given me that touch my heart to its very core. In the first drawer you will find, a small heart shaped dish with an old key, a heart shaped shell from our beach vacation last year and a pair of diamond earrings, a small container of blistex, a barrett, the handkerchief I carried at our wedding, the small bible from my babyhood from Rev. and Mrs. Love and a tin of altoids. In the second drawer is a small selection of thank you cards and two new candles scented of rose and sandlewood which are a gift from a very dear friend in a far distant land. The bottom drawer contains magazines I have not read completely and need to cut out a couple recipes, the first CD my husband burned when he recorded the kids on the DV camera, and the chore chart that I sometimes fill out and post when the children slack in their tasks of keeping their rooms neat and tidy as well as their bathroom. This is the table on the other side of the bed. Inside the innersanctum of the drawers is my husbands secret stash. He is a snacker in the late evening and I keep things in there for him because if you have kids you know they will eat everything and leave nothing for anyone else, so this is his private stash. There are nuts, sunflower and pistachio, beef jerky, slim jim's, meat and cheese sticks and his favorite reese cups. It also comes to my attention that his stocks are looking low. I need to replenish. He will agree that he is spoiled rotten.