Chair
During their move into the cottage Anna only had one major request from her husband. She wanted him to go to London and somehow bring back the two armchairs she'd so admired from his mother's house. It had taken some arranging, but John had been able to fulfill her wish. One evening as they sat in their respective chairs he asked Anna why she'd wanted these two in particular.
"When I went to visit your mother I admired the chairs. She told me that they were part of your family, that they had been her mother's who had passed them down to her. She hoped to pass them down to you one day, but she felt Vera wouldn't appreciate them. In one of her last letters to me she told me that she wanted us to have them when we married. She was very confident that it would happen." Anna smiled at him, and his heart warmed with love for her and his mother's approval.
John and Anna spent many an evening occupying those two chairs. Reading together, or him reading while she sewed. But the best was yet to come. The day that John came home from work years later and saw his beautiful wife and newborn daughter sleeping soundly in the old armchair John felt his mother with him.
"This is what I always wanted for you my Johnny boy."