A RUDE AWAKENING- 6891 entries
This morning as I was busy cooking food for the Passover holiday I realized something. It’s something I probably should have realized years ago but I didn’t. I have all of my mother’s very old Passover dishes. I always love taking them out and using them once a year. I remember what she made in each pot. The pots are old and not in the greatest condition. I would even say some of them are grimy. I don’t care as I am sentimentally attached to them. However I don’t think my children would want to use any of these very old pots. So now I realized that I should/could throw them out. Of course I am still using them and will as long as I am around.
Yesterday we unpacked all my Passover dishes. It was sad to see that many were broken – serving dishes. Plates were just "thrown" in a box with paper towels between each. I would blame my cleaning lady but I was the one using paper towels. She was using some type of packing paper she got from her son. On the other hand I NEVER ever packed like that. However maybe I was just TIRED so didn’t care……………………..I guess it doesn’t matter. We have both been packing for years and never had more than one broken thing! Probably it happened because the dishes were moved. No big deal. I now have dishes and boxes all over. I am going through stuff and will send a lot back downstairs some never to be brought up again.
This morning I made meatballs, which are still simmering on the stove, and knaidles. The knaidles are in the freezer and I will soon add the meatballs. What a pin to then have to thaw out what I need for the weekend. Guess I’m lucky I have food to defrost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So that’s it for now. I will speak to my daughter when she comes for the weekend but I can’t see her wanting to use old stuff and I am positive my DIL wouldn’t.
Now I want to look through the catalogue of courses from the Golden Age so I can decide what to take once the holidays are over. My cousin keeps bugging me as she wants to take something together. I don’t mind but we don’t have the same interests.
The sun is shining………………..want to get on the WII for awhile and then a delicious bath and nap.
Have great day!!!!!!!!!!!!
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sorry about the broken dishes, that’s sad! 🙁
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I think it is so thoughtful of you to offer them to your daughter and DIL. Even if neither wants anything, you can rest easier with the decision to set them aside.
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You never know. I have a bunch of old things that belonged to my great great grandma and I love using them. I never knew her, or my great grandma, or my grandma, but I remember my mother using them and like you, it always takes me back.
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Its a great meaning when older family offers you something. I have my grandparents couch and chair and they may look like their from the flower power days for the 60s I still LOVE them.
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Aw, Im sorry! I was going through a box of special dishes… just thinking about all the great memories. Stuff that was my grandma’s that were handed down to my mom and now to me. 🙂 Did you throw away the dishes? Maybe you could do some sort of.. what is it called.. where you use bits and pieces of glass and clay and such to make a.. oh gosh, it’s late and I should go to bed since I can’t think!
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