Heirlooms rant

[BumbleB]

Oh the joys of OH and I both being only children AND we have only one child 

[louisa maud]

Oh  dear, that  is  a problem, we  have  one daughter a grandaughter  and  a  grandson,  it  won't  be  to  difficult, my  brother  ' s son died last  year and  now  he  has problems  as  to where is "stuff"  should  go.

LM

 

[Lola5]

Yes BumbleB.
 So  much easier...
.especially when  clearing out boxes and boxes of childrens'  drawings, Health records, craft efforts and suchlike....what might they want.?

Today 49 Yr old asked me for her school reports....they may be in box 23 but it will will take me months to find them.
61 Yr old wants the duck drawing he did aged 10.. I last saw it on the wall behind the immovable cupboard/ cabinet thing.
59 Yr old wants the  air mail letter from  my sister in Oz  with burnt edges rescued mail from comet Air crash.....

62 Yr old does not want the hanks of her auburn hair from the 1970,s.
Oh dear...trash or treasures. .?


 

[louisa maud]

I have  birthday cards,  replies  to  my daughters wedding and  her  wedding  dress in the  loft,  they  will  have to go to  her at  sometime ,  my  wedding  dress I  made  into  a  christening  robe that  is  hanging in  my wardrobe, if  my daughter  comments  about tbe amount of  stuff I  have  I will  remind her  a  good majority  of  it  is her stuff

LM

[Viktoria]

I have got children’s milk teeth retrieved from under the hearth rug ,
sixpence placed there .
Trouble is my daughter mixed all their milk teeth up with those of our Westie puppy’s.
Don’t know what DNA conclusions could be drawn from that  mix!
Viktoria.

[louisa maud]

One  evening  my  husband  forgot to  put the tooth fairies  money  under  my daughter's  pillow,  she  came  to  breakfast  next  morning crying, she  said  she had  seen her  dad  put the  money  under  her pillow but pretended to  be asleep, my  reply was  "well as long as  you  don't  tell everyone  your dad is a fairy", well it  made  her laugh

LM

[Viktoria]

Aaaaaw!

My daughter recognised a friend’s very distinctive watch, when he was playing Father Christmas at our Church’s Christmas Fair .She was five.
A quick thinking lady ,explained he was Father Christmas ,but if course not all the time as he had to work ! He had four children .
We were always at one or the others’ house seven children in all.
They were English too and it was good for the children to speak English as a relaxation after working in both Flemish and French in school.
Church had a social hour after the service and it was good to relax in your own language so we could well understand how the children needed it.

The same man brought a zebra skin back from a business trip to Africa.(Ugh!)
Daughter was quite upset , lots of explaining to do. ( This was 1970)
It had been very poorly, and the Vet could not make it better, he did not want it to have pain so he had given it a big tablet and it went to sleep but did not wake up because it was really really ill.

Viktoria.