A Kitchen Table with a History

 

Our dear granddaughter Katie has just moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she will be a professor at Wake Forest University.  I had emailed her yesterday to see how she and her fiance were doing one week into their move and she suggested a FaceTime visit so she could show us their new townhouse. Tonight we were delighted to see her face and hear her voice and see how very lived in their place looks already!

Adding to my delight was seeing their dining room table.  I asked Katie to take off the tablecloth so I could have a closer look.  Yes, that is the table that came from my grandparents’ kitchen 58 years ago.  Jim and I stripped the painted grape leaves from it and varnished it—working in our driveway the month before we got married.  It had a home with us for many years and then found its way to Jeff and Susan’s apartments and now, there it is, with Katie and Eli in North Carolina!  That table has a history and I hope will be the happy place for many more meals for a fifth generation.