Tonight for dinner, Lord willing, I’ll be in Texas sitting around my parents’ table. Their 60th wedding anniversary is next week, and Sister and I are celebrating with them this weekend. Sixty years . . . What a commitment! Yes, I know how rare that is—and how fortunate my siblings and I are.
So when I saw TABLE was the word prompt for this week’s Five Minute Friday, I knew I had to write this post!
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Our days began with breakfast around the table. Good food (unless oatmeal was on the menu), devotional thoughts, and family. Mom, Dad, younger sister and brother, and me.
Our days ended almost every day with supper around the table. Good food, review of the day’s events, and family. Mom, Dad, younger sister and brother, and me.
Consistency. Family. The draw of the table. An experience I repeated with my own daughters.
You readers know tablescapes are “my thing”. But if you’ve been around here very long, you also know my heart focus is far beyond a pretty table. In fact, the table represents so much more than a blank canvas for pretty dishes.
It’s a venue for memory-making.
When we moved into this old house just over a year ago, we had room in the (to-be-renovated) kitchen for an old farmhouse table picked up at auction. The “someday” plan is for it to be on the porch of an outdoor kitchen, but for now, it’s sitting smack dab in the middle of our kitchen.
I love it! Everyone loves it!
It’s made of two wide boards joined to a simple base with nails, its top scarred by the years—and paint splatters. Sometimes I cover it with a cloth; sometimes I sit and look at the bare top, wondering what stories it could tell.
Praying we’re adding fun, honest, thoughtful, God-honoring chapters to its story.
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It you’re a tablescape lover, enjoy this year of tablescape ideas! (Or check out the tablescapes tab for LOTS of inspiration!)
LOVE LOVE LOVE. Tables has been a great word to write on and I’ve enjoyed all the table stories!
How fun all the photos you shared! I love a pretty tablescape:) I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating your parent’s anniversary – 60 years! What a blessing!!
For me, a nice flat tabletop
is a thing of beauty,
to be dragged down to my shop
and to fulfill its duty
as a place to unroll plans,
and build up welding jigs
so I don’t have to burn by hands,
’cause I don’t wear gloves, dig?
The parts and pieces are assembled
and the table does get rather scarred
coming, at last, to resemble
the cratered face of Mars,
but when it does, I do not frown;
I screw another piece of plywood down.
Perfect text painting, Andrew. I, too, love myself a nice flat tabletop!
“Table scapes” .. what a novel idea, filling with creativity and expressions of gratitude as you speak. Am blest just reading here. Thankyou, stay blest!🌻🌼🌷⚘