Here’s this week’s contribution to Sundara’s Eye Candy Friday.

I’ve had this little porcelain cottage since high school. Mom and Dad bought it for me in the Great Britain section of Epcot, down in Disney World. We’d gone for just a weekend, the three of us, because Dad had a business trip, and figured it would make a nice break for us from a New Jersey January. Naturally, the day we were supposed to leave, we had a snowstorm, and out flight was delayed. Not only that, I woke up that morning witha fever–the first one I’d had in years and years. (When I told my parents that I had been so cold during the night, they said I should have gotten up and taken some Tylenol. I asked why, they said because of the fever. But, really, this had been the first time since I had been in elementary school that I’d had a fever–how was I supposed to know? When I was little, Mommy took care of these kinds of things!)Anyway, because of the fever, they wouldn’t let me help shovel the driveway clear of all the snow–even though that was the ONE winter that I adored shoveling–and when we finally got to the airport, I fell asleep while Mom and Dad were checking in. I slept on the plane, which is absolutely unheard of for me. Mom and I walked around Disney world in the rain that Friday, while Dad was in his meeting, with me trying to keep warm . . .

The next morning, I woke up feeling fine, but the weather was still pretty miserable. Wet. Damp. Cold. It even felt colder in Florida than it had in New Jersey, although of course, that wasn’t actually true. But we weren’t as bundled up as we would have been at home, either. But we saw Epcot Center, which was still pretty new (there were some exhibits that weren’t even open yet). And my nice parents got me this little souvenir.

I adored these little cottages–I loved the tiny details, as if you could climb right inside. Which, of course, is something I used to imagine all the time . . . I’d sit with it right in front of my eye, picturing what it felt like to walk up to that little front door, to peek into (or out of) the windows, to climb the stairs . . .

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