Treasures

When I got home from Missouri on Wednesday, Rick said it looked like I had been to a massive garage sale. I had boxes of treasures from my grandma's house, and even some things from my mom's house. To most these things might look like trash. But each item holds special memories for me.

Like these things:

These are items I played with on the floor of my grandma's house when I would go visit as a little girl. They are her tin measuring cups and spoons, her flour sifter and biscuit cutter. I plan to use these items routinely, and maybe someday my grandchildren will play with them, too.

Then there is everything you need to make the perfect angel food cake (without the ingredients, of course.)

There are my grandma's two cake pans, for round and square cakes. Her specialty was square. There is the plate she would place them on. Then she would hide it in her microwave and tell us she hadn't made one this time. There is the traveling cake pan that her angel food cake would go in should we be eating away from her home. And there is her electric knife. It cut the spongy cake perfectly!

These things were in my grandma's bedroom, and I don't remember a time when they weren't there.

The mirrored tray is actually a framed mirror from a frame-making company called Decorel that my mom worked at in 1969. My grandma had her makeup sitting on it. Then that brush and mirror set belonged to someone in her family. We are still trying to figure out exactly who. It is monogrammed. The monogram sent me down a rabbit hole yesterday trying to build my grandma's family tree. I have loads of information about her mother's side of the family, but not one thing on her father's. It's almost as if he didn't exist!

Then this is her Bible from when she was a girl.

I have it sitting on my photo table in my living room, opened to
Titus 2. It is a reminder to me to "urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."

Here is the dictionary she had as a girl.

I love her name hand-written in it.

And lastly, here are some ooooooooold cookbooks I found in her drawer. Neat.

I brought home all of the photos my grandma had at her house of her ancestors and her descendents. I am going to get them placed into some type of scrapbook for her.