dotsie, you pricked a thought I've had off and on over the years. what will my children do with the things I've stashed away in the attic over the years? Will the things that were important to me, hold the same importance to them?

I think it's a shame that their mom threw the cookbook away. Sad, too, as a matter of fact. I'm a sentimental sort. I a couple of my grandmother's handmade aprons. They were the things I cared to have of hers most. I remember her wearing one or another of her favorites throughout the day. Sometimes she'd have a line of safety pins on a strap. One of the aprons I received still had a safety pin on it. I love that apron! It's a flour sack print with orange rickrack, of all things, but I love it.