Monday, March 22, 2010

Farewell!

Farewell my beautiful china dishes! Farewell my Mikasa Palatial Gold tea cups and sugar bowl! The three times I've used you in the last five years has been full of memories and ginger maneuvers. Oh! The care I've used to preserve you to make sure that all sixteen table settings are without a scratch or chip; every piece accounted for.

Farewell my pretty plates. You've been overrun. Boys don't like tea cups, nor would I allow my pudgy-handed hellions to touch a piece of my magnificence. I'm packing you away for a time, only to be pulled out, washed and used when needed. Into the box you go.


This is it, china. It's over. You've been replaced with coloring books, markers, play-doh and games, scissors and glitter and pipe cleaners and...and...and...and...everything that is the exact opposite of china.


I'll call you when I'm fifty.

5 comments:

Erin said...

Fifty huh? Just in time for your pudgy-handed hellions to have pudgy-handed hellions of their own! ;-)

Anonymous said...

I agree! And what's so important about 50?
Yo' Mama

Anonymous said...

Trust me...at 50 you will hide them again so they don't get broken...Been there, done that....

Mimi

Anonymous said...

love it..but i say...sell it...
maria

Mallory said...

I say fifty because maybe by the time I'm fifty I might have the *TIME* to have people over just for the heck of it--for tea 'ya know! Maybe not?

And no, no, I won't ever sell it. It was a gift from one of my loyal blog readers! ;-) . I really think that to have it is great, it will always be there to use, even if the season isn't right, right now.

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