Posted on 11/05/2009 5:22:26 AM PST by Crusher138
You can freeze eggs??? Who knew! They last forever in the frig, I have heard a year or more.
I am very fortunate, my girls all finally grew up and love my stuff.
We joke that we are going to visit our tables and chairs and beds when we visit,,they have furnished houses with out stuff and grandparents stuff. They treasure the grandparents furniture. They had better furniture in the old days,,beautiful handcarved cherry and mahogany tables, just gorgeous.
I love visiting my mother’s furniture at my daughters house in Texas, my furniture in Atlanta and my carpets in Baltimore.
I just thought of another idea,,an exchange gift year where all we do is give each other stuff we don’t want. Like I need twin bed sheets for the guest room and don’t have them and the kids do. And one daughter has three coffee makers and no espresso machines and I have two espresso machines and no percolators.
I have my grandmothers enamel coffee pot, the old fashioned drip one you can’t find anymore and that is what I use when I mae more than two cups. I need a percolator and could cast off one espresso. And big pots,,I have too many and daughters too little.
I love skinny Christmases,,more heart I think than buy everything Christmas.
Get copies of that pic and put in in a frame and any daugters will put it in a place of honor! It is a metaphor for “keep truckin;/sooner or later you will get a bite”
My daughters love those old old pics of their female ancestors especially if accomanied by a story.
My grandmother had no schooling, married young to an old man who was born before the civil war, was widowed in the 1918 flu epidemic and left with one dime, one silver spoon, some pretty cut glass and three young kids. She educated them thru college, never allowed a male visitor but did have lunch with the town doc. She self taught herself to read, got a harp from Sears and learned to play it well, and taught herself math, calculus, physics, English.
She took care of me when my Mom was in grad school, lived with us and when she died I was two. I quit walking and talking for months so great was my grief.
I treasure every story of that wonderful woman of whom I have no memories but from all I hear, I am much like her. She was only 61 when she died but her life was extraordinary.
My kids don’t enjoy the old stories and they roll their eyes at all the keepsakes. My house is full of old family stuff, ha! I have a couple of grandpa’s guns but there’s a couple others that I wish I had. One was the one that shot the heel off Sam Bass’ boot. The story goes that great-great grandpa was sort of a friend of Sam’s so when the sheriff’s posse was suppose to shot him, grandpa shot low hitting his boot heel and Sam got away. The one I really want is Mr. B’s great-great grandpa’s that he carried at the Battle of San Jacinto when he was in the scouting troop that captured Santa Anna. It was around a few years (ok, decades) ago but was sold out of the family and no one seems to know any more about it.
Oh, here’s a funny family gun story. There was a guy who lived at great-granny’s (not the sun bonnet granny) boarding house who made a deathbed confession (though he lived) that he was John Wilkes Booth (obviously a bit nutty) and gave granny a pistol wrapped in a newspaper with headlines about the Lincoln assassination. The guy had always been suspicious acting so granny had the gun and the newspaper buried under the house. Grandpa said he saw it years later but didn’t know what ever became of it. The boarding house is still there as is granny’s house and the house grandpa grew up in so who knows what one might find if they dug around a bit.
Great stories, loved the boot shooting.
How old are your kids. My daughters are two in their forties and the younger is 33. The older ones are the ones who love the stuff and stories. When they were in their twenties and early thirties and setting up house, I offered them invaluable things,,antique persial rugs, real hand woven ones that were gorgeous and they sniffed at them. I offered them china, crystal silver, and they sniffed saying ‘nobody uses that stuff’. Well now they love them and all their friends are inheriting silver and crystal and they crave it!!
They keep growing up just when you think that is it,,I raised some silly girls, suddenly they are acting just like me, just ten years after I grew up.
Maybe yours need some more time and mostly have to start buying furniture. You pay alot for crap nowadays. They just don’t make affordable furniture unless you go to the Carolinas or the AMish country where the furniture is made to last for ten generations. All they can afford now is chinese stuff and it falls apart.
Holidays for our family have always been more about being together. There is no greater gift for us to be with those we love on the holidays. We are blessed with a lovely family. There will be no sadness that we cannot afford the latest or expensive gifts but we will be grateful that we have food on the table and a roof over our heads.
And then the day after we will go right back to fighting those b*****ds that made it so that we couldn't even afford to buy our children a small gift this Christmas.
We quit the gift exchange last year. Just a “white elephant” thing that was actually more fun. Grandkids get the usual stuff though. Hopefully we can quash that thing in a couple of years.
Spoiling the kids. Hugging my wife, and my wife hugging me. When times were better, she bought me a set of Ping Rapture V2’s. I told her that’s what I wanted for Christmas this year.
I plan on buying her a few things. I honestly don’t need anything.
Wow. No kidding? I'll check that right out. Maybe Walmart still has them. We have a large freezer.
Well, then mine have plenty of time to grow up as they’re teens. Nothing older than 3 weeks is good enough for them...
Oh if I could have returned mine when they were teens, I would have. When they went to college I had no empty nest syndrome. They will change and shock you when they marry and have a baby or two.
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