My favorite piece of furniture in the baby's room

The dresser in this picture has a story connected to it (good thing, right, as it doesn't exactly match the scottie dog theme). This dresser belonged to my mother when she was a little girl. When my mom was pregnant for me, my father redid the dresser and put the puppy dog decals on it- my parents didn't have a lot of money when the were married and it was the one thing he could do for my mom (and for me). When my sister had her first child, the dresser was given to her for my niece's bedroom. Then my sister had her son, and he inherited the dresser. Recently my mom gave it to me, so that when our child comes home, he will be the next generation to enjoy it.

My dad passed away in August of 2004, so our son will never know him in person. But he will have this dresser that his grandpa worked so lovingly on so that his daughter (me) would have a nice piece of furniture for her room. And I will be able to tell our son the story about this dresser- how his grandma had it when she as a toddler, how I had it (newly refinished with puppy icons) when I was a baby, how A had it in her room, and then A had it in his. And I hope that in the telling of that story our son will get a sense of what his grandpa was like- a man who, when he had no money, was struggled to make ends meet, and had a new wife, and a baby on the way, put what spare time he had into refinishing a beat up old dresser so that it was shiny and new.

So that is why, even though it does not really fit the "theme" of the nursery, it is my favorite piece of furniture.