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Grandma's Apron
Do you remember your Grandma's apron?
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress
underneath, 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.
Thank You Grandma for all that you taught me!
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Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth
them not;
so he that getteth riches, and not by right,
shall leave them in the midst of his days,
and at his end shall be a fool.
3John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Titus 2:4
That they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children,
Have a blessed
day!
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