Victoria’s Read

My father sent this article to me. He said that it reminded him of his grandmother. My father didn’t have the privilege of being raised by his mother but that didn’t change his feelings for her. Although, my father longed for the security of his mothers arms, he always knew in his heart that she loved him.

My father always wondered what it would have been like to be raised by his mother and when he had children of his own, he watched his mother be the best grandmother to his children that a father could ever hope for. It was then that he knew.

This article reminds me of my grandma and I’m sure it will remind you too.

The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids and when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that “old-time apron”, that served so many purposes.

Victoria says: Visit your Grandma regularly!!!