When we moved from CA we pretty much sold everything. Let's face it, we pretty much had to as we needed the money to do our little adventure and why pay to store a bunch a stuff. And when you live in a 5th wheel and you have a total of 3 cabinets for dishes and food alike, downsizing is a necessity. We've been back in a house for just over a year now and we were still eating on our camping plates. You know, Corelle...the stuff that wont break or chip? Well, Brett dropped one of those plates, and they are right - they don't break and they don't chip. They shatter!A few weeks ago, we had company over for dinner and even though we're still months away from Christmas, here I was eating on a plastic Rudolph plate. That was the night we decided we needed to buy some new dishes. But then we got thinking about the fact that we had plenty of perfectly good china in the attic. The more we thought about it, the more it made sense to use what we had and the whole idea of good china was nonsense. Why do we use our most expensive, most beautiful things only on special occasions? How often do you use your china? If you have both Thanksgiving and Christmas at your house, you probably use it twice a year. Our china is from Brett's mom and grandmother. Several pieces are chipped and there are quite a few pieces that are missing. We considered how we might feel if another piece got broken, but in the end we decided we would rather enjoy it everyday than not take the risk and only see it once or twice a year.
Aren't our friends and family the most cherished company? Shouldn't it be the people with whom we share our meals and not the date on the calendar that makes something special?
Our china has now been brought down from the attic and unpacked from it's many layers of bubble wrap and is now being "stored" in our kitchen where it is used everyday. Our cornflakes and meatloaf are now china worthy....or rather WE are now china worthy.
