Sisters' Fun

Today was our second annual sisters' day.

What is a sisters' day? Well, it all started after our mother passed away a few years ago. We realized that our family was pretty much anchored around our mother. We all called her, and she would pass on everybody's news. When she was no longer here, we decided it was worth the effort to keep in touch and do what it takes to keep up the relationships our family had enjoyed for so long through our parents.

So today was a laid back sisters' day; just hanging out and eating and talking. And LOTS of laughing.

Telling stories about kids and grandkids (some of my siblings are older!) and husbands and friends. And laughing about our own idiosyncrasies. I'm sure no one else has ever dealt with such things... Did no one else but me, when growing up, claim certain possessions of their grandparents for when they were gone? That was one of our favorite pastimes! We would go through our grandmother's kitchen, put our names on slips of paper, and stick them in her dishes! (She told us we could!)

The thing was, when she did pass away years later, sometimes those slips of paper were still there, and whether we wanted that item anymore or not, we got them!

"No, Mom! I don't want that old glass jar!"

"Too bad--your name is in it!"

Of course, this made for some fun stories.

But in going through some items of my mother's this morning, and remembering other items we have from grandparents, we were making guesses at where some things came from. And it's sort of sad, in a way, that we no longer have the ability to ask and find out the history of these things. For instance, where did that pin come from? It says 50 years of Lion's Club, but neither of our parents were involved in the Lions. So how did that pin end up in my mother's jewelry box? We had to guess.

I would encourage you to write those things down. It will help those left behind to have a sense of personal history.

Till next time,
Jeanette