Tragedy Strikes Deep at the Flake Household

Anyone who knows Eden Flake, also knows her blanket. Well, the blanket is no longer. She has had this blanket since she was born, and always loved it. She caresses the triagles on the edges each night and sucks her tongue (a bizarre carry over from nursing). This is how she has fallen asleep for all of her nearly six years. It has taken a beating over all this time and after much stitching and patching has finally become irreperable.
She loves this blanket so much that there are rules and it can only be had at night time. So we put it in various place to hide it each day. About two weeks ago, I put it in the top of her closet. It got burnt by the light bulb at the top, as can be seen in the picture. Luckily Justin found it before our whole house, burnt down, too. Although that might have been a blessing in disguise. Justin called me in for a secret meeting to discuss our course of action upon finding this tragedy. We told her, and she took it reasonably well. The following picture shows her feelings even now. The reason it took me two weeks to put this up is because she would not pose for any pictures with her blanket because it made her too sad.

RIP: Blankie

We have loved and lost but never so deeply.