Photoessay #2883 - My mother's table

How many of us have our mother's table?  Like mine.  It doesn't fit in our dining room especially if we put in the extra leaves.  Even without these, it doesn't fit as my husband point out.

The table itself is beautiful cherry wood but I rarely use it without the pads because it can be damaged so easily.

The chairs are too big, take up too much room.  But my mother did the needle point on the chairs.

So I won't get rid of it even though it doesn't really work for me.

My  friend Diane says the same thing.  She has her mother's table and it doesn't really fit but she won't get rid of it.

We could afford to buy a new table and chairs.  However Dennis and I both hate shopping.  We have a perfectly good maple table now in our garage but it needs refinishing.

I'm having a total of seven people here tonight for dinner.  A monthly meeting from our geneaoogy class from last year.  It's my turn; I have spaghetti sauce going in the crock pot.  Others will bring everything else.  I have the remaining three bottles of sparkling ciders from the holidays in our upstairs 'wine cellar."  That would be our back deck.

How many of us are stuck with our mother's tables?  Things that may have made sense in our parent's homes.  But don't really work but we're not willing to give it up?

Maybe not even a table