The Sleeping Bag

 It's interesting to me what can trigger a memory that's been tucked way back in my mind.  Yesterday, I was doing a list challenge online.  It's a website that has different lists and you compare what you've done, seen, read, etc. to what is on the list.  What can I say, it passes the time and can be interesting.  I was doing a list of movies someone had seen and checking off the ones I've seen.  She had lots of Disney movies on her list, and I have seen all of the classic ones.  One of those was 1977's The Rescuers.  It is the story of Bernard and Bianca, two mice who work for a rescue organization who help in finding kidnapping victims.  In this story, they are searching for a young girl named Penny.  

I don't know if Mom took us to see that movie in its initial release. I would have only been two when it came out in June of 1977.  I know I have seen the movie, but I don't remember when exactly.  Not that I would remember going to the movies as a 2-year-old either LOL. But that Christmas (or it may have been the next) Santa brought me a The Rescuers sleeping bag.  I was so excited to get it.  Bill had a sleeping bag, and I guess Santa thought it was only right that I had one too.  I did not use it all that much as there was not much opportunity.  I didn't exactly go camping at that age haha!  But I did carry that bag around the house with me a lot.  As a pre-school age child in an era where my entertainment came mostly from my imagination, that sleeping bag became a good cape sometimes and it also made for a good fort.  Ah, the days of having a fort in the den.  Good times.

There was one time when I was very sick and I slept in that sleeping bag.  Well, Mom brought a chaise lounge into the den and set the bag on that so that I could both rest and watch tv.  I don't remember what was wrong with me, but I do remember the comfort of that sleeping bag.  I do not know what ever happened to that bag.  I obviously outgrew it but I don't know if we gave it away or sold it at a garage sale or just threw it away because it was worn.  I loved it, though and still love the memories attached to it.  All of this by doing a list challenge.

That is all.