May Challenge: Memories
Actually, it's not so much a boxful of memories as the box evokes memories. First it is of a store, Sibley's that is no longer. I remember going downtown with my mother once a year to shop...We'd go out to the Manhattan Restaurant (also no more). And it also has a note on it in my grandmother's handwriting. In the upper left corner she wrote: 2 dinner plates, 2 cakes plate, 4 saucers, 2 cups. (I'm thinking that 2 of the saucers were bread-and-butter plates). This was part of her wedding present to us. I'd never shopped for china before and so bought total of 10 pieces, naively believing it was 10 place settings. Imagine my mother and grandmother wondering how I bought 10 place settings so cheap. Well, it was only 2! My grandmother has been gone many years now but I cannot throw out the box because she wrote on it.