The Simple Things

It's the simple things in a person's life that make it remarkable, that's my opinion anyway. When I think about my husband and something I miss it's taking our morning coffee on the front porch in our rocking chairs. We sometimes talk about plans for the day and sometimes we say nothing at all. My first thought isn't our honeymoon in New Orleans, although it was great it's just not something that I long for. The simplest thing in the world most often holds the most importance in your heart.

One of my simple pleasures are these little plates. My grandfather Pawpaw worked at the airport for as long as I can remember. There's no telling where exactly or how exactly he picked these dishes up, but they are the plates used by the airlines for serving meals. In Nene's house they were the spaghetti plates. Everytime she cooked spaghetti for dinner it was eaten off of these little dishes. Now our spaghetti dinners are enjoyed on these dishes as well. However, I don't only use these for spaghetti. They are perfect for soup and sandwiches, chips and dip, veggies and dip. Getcha a little bowl full of chili, stew or soup with cornbread, a biscuit or a chunk of crusty bread and I am the hap hap happiest girl in the world. Astheics matter. If you are walking through a store and a particular item catches your eye and begs for you to come pick me up look how pretty I am, you should purchase it. *With in finacial reason of course don't spend your grocery money for the month just so you can have a pretty little vase. I am talking about the simple things.* Do you have something in your house that you don't regularly use because it is only for special occasions? Well let's just put a stop to that right now. Life is short, use the good china. Get that lead crystal platter out of the box and serve your hamburgers and hot dogs on it at your next BBQ. What's the worst that can happen? Yes, it could break, but at least you have the memories of all of the times you used it instead of it being stuck in a smelly box shoved in the top of a closet. Ya can't take it with ya, and do you really want to be on your death bed thinkin; if only I had used to good china?