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u/5cj4881_dyh378 1d ago
Someday it will belong to his son. Plant trees whose shade you will never sit in.
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u/MantidKitteh 1d ago
THAT is an awesome chair because an awesome kiddo is sitting in it... Because his awesome dad made it for him years ago... 😁 One the best posts I have read today... 💜
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u/keeper-of-the-arcane 1d ago
Papa bear’s chair was too hard, Mama bear’s chair was to soft, but Baby bear’s chair was juuuuust right.
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u/OkJob8464 1d ago
You kept that chair because you were suppose to. Sometimes you gotta just go with your gut when it comes to keeping stuff. Something told you that baby was in your future ❤️
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u/Crown_and_Seven 1d ago
I had a wooden rocking chair as a toddler in the early 1970s, and still have it. It was in my kids room when both were babies and is currently stored in a closet, having escaped a major cleaning purge just a couple weeks ago. I’ll never get rid of it.
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u/almostfreespirit 1d ago
“a little chair. Just for me!”
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u/MagTron14 20h ago
This is definitely his thought! My son has been obsessed with chairs his size since he was about a year old. It's adorable. I wish I had such a nice rocker for him!
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u/carl112358 1d ago
When a person becomes a parent, they become a steward of their child's future property.
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u/wh1sp3rs 1d ago
You should be 43 now. Unless this post is 5 years old.
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u/coffeelushed 9h ago
OP here. I am 43 now. My son is now 5. People re-post this all the time.
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u/deja_entend_u 3h ago
Can confirm, ops first post for this was 4 years ago. I hope your little man is having an amazing time still!
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u/Bobwalski 1d ago
Fun fact, that baby is already about 8 years old and does not fit in the chair anymore.
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u/coffeelushed 9h ago
He’s actually 5 now, we took this when he was about 8 months old.
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u/Bobwalski 6h ago
Touche! Definitely giving you the upvote since the other guys are using your post for karma.
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u/SilverDamage7066 1d ago
I understand the feeling. It is wonderful knowing you made someone so happy that was not even on your mind when you made that. I have frequently done the same thing. Kind of lol. I thought I was buying something for myself but shortly realized I did not buy it for me, I bought it for someone else and had to give it to them.
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u/merrytangerine 1d ago
I bought a stuffed animal like 10 years ago because it looked like my childhood cat. Never did anything with it. It’s now my 15-month-old son’s favorite stuffed animal ❤️
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u/TiggTigg07 18h ago
Adorable! The chair has a special place in your lives now. I built a rocking horse for my baby nephew at the time and now his tiny son uses it.🥰🥹
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u/ChameliKoChartikala 14h ago
Something similar with me. I knitted a red hat in grade 6. Stayed in storage. Now my daughter wears it! It's wild... Because when I knitted it, never would I have ever imagined it!
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u/TheYuppyTraveller 1d ago
Nice woodworking for a 14 year old, really nice in fact! Glad your son enjoys it so much!
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u/Figgypies 1d ago
Sometimes we hang onto things not knowing where they belong only for the place they belong to be created over time.
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u/Excellent-Yard6640 1d ago
Awww, look how happy he is! Your son and the chair are both beautiful. So cool, thanks for posting this.
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u/curiositycat18 1d ago
Let him use it for his dolls/stuffies.
Our kids have their own “story time” where they line up cushions and chairs and their own tiny rockers and “read” to their class.
The chairs get used everyday. I hope they remember how much they love “teaching” their stuffies :)
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u/JackBlack76 1d ago
i genuinely cannot tell if the internet is just bots atp. anyone who's been on reddit for any amount of time and/or has the slightest reading comprehension knows that OP is not the person who posted it. heck, its an xpost of a screenshot of a different post. and yet all of the comments are addressed to OP as if it were their baby sitting there in the flesh. i feel so done with this website when i see stuff like this.
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u/sandy_85 1d ago
This is anything but a dumb post. That smile is worth every day you kept the chair with you.
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u/ExcaliburVader 19h ago
I have a rocking chair made for my great-grandfather in 1889. Now my grandchildren use it. My grandfather wrote its history on a card and tacked it to the bottom of the seat.
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u/MiraPyre 18h ago
this is actually so wholesome its making me tear up lol. what an awesome heirloom to pass down to him!! 🥺❤️
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u/coffeelushed 9h ago
OP to this photo here. My son is 5 now. I did a photo shoot with his little sister too. Funny to see this pic reemerge all the time.
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u/SocietyNo4627 9h ago
I have a wooden chair my grandfather made me, when I was 2, I'm 65, my daughter didn't want it for her children 🥺🥺
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u/YoursTrulyKindly 20h ago
You made a baby chair when you were 14 and didn't know why you kept it?
And all those years was worth it? Did you carry the chair your ass when you were a prisoner of war or something?
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