Passing Down Family Heirlooms
My husband’s job transferred him to Albuquerque in 1984. It was the first time either one of us had lived more than 10 miles from family. We were excited about our new adventure, and at the same time sad to leave our very close-knit family behind.
Rose Bowl from Germany was given to my grandmother by her mother.
We moved into a new and larger home so I needed more wall decorations.
This was before we had the Internet so I visited several furniture stores, but had difficulty finding pictures I liked in my price range.
We lived several months without anything on the walls until one day I was making room to store old dishes passed down to me by my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother. Continue Reading