Okay, fellow quilters, you all really should have warned me. You see, I am almost never around any children. I don't have any children, and I am an only child. So you can see my experience with children is really quite limited.
This past weekend, we had a mini-family reunion, and I got reacquainted with a cousin I hadn't seen in years. He brought his wife and children, whom I had never met. His wife is a warm, laid back person. The children were very busy, but quite sweet. And you see it's the sweet part that got to me. I spent some one-on-one time with his 5 year old daughter. Omigosh, what an imp! She and I spent time looking at quilt blocks. I had a stack of blue blocks and a stack of purple blocks to show. She liked the blue blocks, but purple is her favorite color. I knew I was in big trouble when she gives me this really cute smile and shyly suggests that I could finish the purple quilt for her. HA! At that moment, I knew there was no doubt that quilt was meant for her, and immediately agreed. Her enthusiasm was overwhelming. And of course, being just five, she suggested that maybe I could get it done for her the next day so she could take it home with her. LOL! What a delight.