Today again I find myself a little nostalgic and thinking about my mother.
It may be that myself as a mother the road map has been with bumps. Never knowing if I made the right decisions however, those thoughts are put back in the box for another rainy day.
I digress and choose to focus on the lovely memories of my life.
This picture reminds me of a time long ago when women wore aprons as a common practice.
I don't think most kids today know what an apron is. The principle use of Mom's or Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few.
It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons 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, she wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the house 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, she walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in for dinner.
It would be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
Remember when Mom's and Grandma's used to set hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
We see now that granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
The world would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron - "but love"
Nana
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