My most treasured material item? Umm.. probably my laptop, cause that’s where all my friends live!
Hmmm.. treasured. Probably my dining room table (set) … that counts, right?
My dining room set belonged to my Great-great-grandmother. It’s beautiful. Solid Mahogany and very, very heavy. There is a table (with extensions), 4 chairs, and 2 intricately carved buffets. Aside from being beautiful, the memories it holds for me are priceless.
- I can remember my maternal grandmother sitting at it, playing solitaire when I was a small child. She died when I was 5 so these are probably some of the earliest memories I have, in general.
- I can see the scarring on the top of the table from where my mother sat her glass of Pepsi when she, too, played solitaire in the mornings.
- Through 2 generations of pictures in my closet, I have countless photographs of my mother’s family, and the only thing familiar to me about them, is that they are sitting at MY dining room table. It really IS my link to her side of my bloodlines.
- I look forward to the day that I can pass it down to Monkeyface and all the memories that it will hold for her.
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