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When I Grow Up…
Since Mother’s Day is this weekend, for my Show & Tell I wanted to show you something I “inherited” from my mother… As Mother was unpacking her luggage when she and Dad were here in March, she handed me this 40-some-year-old stationery box.“Oh, Mother!” I said somewhat reverently as she placed it in my hands. “You found it! Do I…
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David the Bear
Remember the story of David’s missing pajamas a few weeks ago? I knew they were packed away somewhere, but I had no idea where. Well, I came across them last week while I was unpacking yet another box from the garage and I knew you would want to see them! I decided to put them on David and in the…
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Vintage Clothesline
For this week’s Vintage Thingy Thursday I thought I’d show you the clothesline I blatantly copied from Confessions of an Apron Queen. (Wanna see hers? Click here.) Not everything on my clothesline is vintage… the first item is a pair of bloomers that went with a cute little outfit my daughter wore when she was little (mid-1990s)… next is the…
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Priorities
I’ve been thinking a lot about priorities lately. Compared to many of today’s families our daily lives are really quite simple. We are not involved in very many on-going regularly-scheduled outside-the-home activities. Yet each morning there are things to be done, tasks to be accomplished. We have a never-ending to-do list, places to go, people to see. It can be…
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Dressed-to-a-Tea
Many years ago my mother received this beautiful antique chocolate set as a wedding gift from her brother and his wife. Don’t know what a chocolate set is? Well, neither did my mother. She thought it was a tea set for years. The pot is taller and narrow, and the cups are smaller than a tea set. Not sure why…
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Meet David!
Several weeks ago I introduced you to “Sits”… a keepsake from my husband’s childhood. This week, as part of the Vintage Thingies Thursdays meme going on at Confessions of an Apron Queen, I thought I would introduce to another of my husband’s childhood friends. This is David! Lyle’s grandma made David for him. No one seems to remember exactly when,…
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The White Sisters (Follow-up Post)
Do you remember back in January when I posted about my sisters and my aunt and I pretending to be The White Sisters? (Click here to read it, if you missed it.) It was a fun memory… and brought a lot of chuckles as we talked it over again. In our little-girl minds The White Sisters were big celebrities, so…
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My Mother’s Gloves
In honor of my parents’ anniversary this week, I thought I would show you my mother’s “going-away” gloves, which she gave me as a keepsake a few years ago, only if I promised to treasure them! (And, oh, I do!) I love the detail on the edge… the delicate stitching and eyelet cut-outs… and such a pretty pale blue color.…
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A Twig Rooster
For today’s Show & Tell I “brought” this fun little rooster that Granddaddy carved for me from a twig in the fall of 1994. We had gone camping at Beaver Lake in northwestern Arkansas, not too far from where my parents and grandparents lived. We invited them to come up and have supper with us one evening at the campground.…
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The Tooth Fairy
I was just slightly baffled when my little girl presented me with this scantily-clad fairy figurine for my birthday a couple years ago. Obviously, Rebecca thought it was a beautiful piece of brick-a-brack, but my mother had taken her shopping and I really thought Mother had better taste than that. The first thought that went through my mind was, “Surely…
