Design Interest

I absolutely love this hutch and how clever this couple was in reusing the antique buffet table.  The buffet lends what is really the best part of the piece-- the curved front.  This article is from the Better Homes and Gardens' September 2012 issue, p. 220.

Lasts

There have been and will be a lot of "lasts" this year (L's senior year), some bitter and some sweet and some bitter AND sweet at the same time. With my oldest, most of the "lasts" during his senior year were sweet--so glad to put paid to all those chapters of his life (a feeling he shared) and so elated at the end of the year when he actually graduated. So this is my first time to swing on the pendulum from bitter to sweet almost in the same experience or moment. Tuesday was L's last Evening in Excellence.  Bittersweet it was.

Edna-isms, Part Three

[An aside regarding my sox: my dress had red polka dots that you cannot really see in this faded photograph.  No real excuse for the white shoes but I'm sure it was after Easter!]

1. "Hobnobbing with the landed gentry."  This is evidently a well-known phrase because I found many hits on the Internet when I Googled it but I do not know its source other than my mother always said it. 

2.  "I'm just sick abed on two chairs," she'd say. This phrase was used when she or someone else was sick, either troubled (as in "I'm just sick about that!") or actually physically ill.  It conjures the image of someone lying on top of two pushed-together dining chairs.

3. "Give it a lick and a promise."  This means to clean something quickly and not carefully, according to the Internet and that is exactly how Mom used it.

4.  "Slip on a banana peel and go."  This was used when you didn't have much time to get ready to go somewhere.

5.  "Wash up as far as possible and down as far as possible."  This expression was used when you didn't have time to adequately clean up to go somewhere.