4 More shopping Days until Christmas!
While I know it's going to take me 17 more days just to get my house tidy and ready for Christmas dinner, I'm excited about it. Dinner, not the cleaning.
I was just over at Lisa's having Thanksgiving dinner just yesterday, or so it seems and now Christmas is breathing down my neck. Is it just me or is time flying like this for everyone?
Part of me wants to invite my grandfather to Christmas dinner.. but another part of me thinks he'd be mean to one of my grandkids and that would just ruin the day. What to do, what to do? I'd sure enjoy his company if he could just be the man I knew back in 1980.
Lisa got mom's old Table and chairs, and we were over there the other night having some of her delicious pork roast and I looked around and thought about all the people who had sat at that table over the years, for Christmas dinners, summer lunches, so many memories attached to one piece of furniture. I looked over to Mamaw's spot and I could almost see her sitting there sipping an after dinner coffee. Next to her was Papaw, only he was smiling like he used to do, looking for someone to pick at. Those were the days.
For a second, I wished I had that table. I wished it was in my kitchen and I could put a velvet rope and pole around Mamaw's chair - you know, like they have in museums or in banks where they only want one customer to pass at a time.. to just protect Mamaw's place there. But I'm happy it's at Lisa's. It matches her house. And I couldn't possibly love it anymore than she does.
Yesterday, I was going through the China mom just gave me, and that same sweet nostalgia hit me again. Everyone in the family has eaten from those plates at one meal or another. I don't need a velvet rope for them, I just washed them (tho they didn't need washed, but washing them made them feel like mine) and I put them into the china cabinet. As much as I love my Currier and Ives, these have so much more meaning behind them. The Currier and Ives have gone into the bottom of the cabinet and these mom just gave me are behind the glass. Thanks mom, I will treasure these forever! I can't believe you gave me the glass candles too, I LOVE those candles!!
Posted by juel at December 20, 2005 06:52 AM