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In Texas, we didn't have floor registers, we had little stoves that had ceramic elements in them or gas heaters.  I remember jumping out of bed and running across cold wood and linoleum floor s to stand on a braided rug in front of a little stove that would soon toast my legs...and I would turn around and around like a little pig on a spit, trying to wait for the room to warm up.  I don't remember having a robe at that stage.

posted by Krisles on February 4, 2015 at 8:42 PM | link to this | reply

Ah yes - I can remember hearing my foster grandma get up in the middle of the night and putting wood n the fire. I loved the sound - the stovepipe came up through my bedroom.

posted by adnohr on February 3, 2015 at 8:54 PM | link to this | reply

so much our parents sis for us. So much to be grateful for. They showed their love in many many ways.

posted by Kabu on February 3, 2015 at 6:53 PM | link to this | reply

I did not realize a lot later the depth of what my parents had done for me.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on February 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM | link to this | reply

Somewhere there is a photo

of my younger daughter, age 3 or 4, huddled over the ornate old heating vent grate in the floor of the house we lived in then.  Every morning, she headed straight for it, looking like the Little Match Girl.

posted by Ciel on February 3, 2015 at 6:52 AM | link to this | reply