I still have the waffle iron that my Grandfather bought us as a wedding
present 42 years ago.  It is early Teflon, but much heavier than the irons
generally sold now.  My ten year old grandson gets up and makes waffles for
all of us on Sunday mornings when he is here.    And I always feel like my
Grandpa is looking over his shoulder.

May not be an antique or an heirloom, but if I died my kids would fight
over it.

Jo

Donna, an early Happy Mother's Day to you!  I learned some years back to buy
myself something I really like every Mother's Day, in case everyone else
forgets ;-)  This year was no different.

I was in a flower shop last week buying a couple gifts, and just as I walked
in the first door, there IT was!  You know all the ceramic and plaster
figurines they make to put on the porch or in the garden?  This one had my
name on it!  But....I'd never spent that much for a Mother's Day gift, so I
looked, then walked out, putting it in the back of my mind.  Couldn't forget
it, so went back to the flower shop today and bought it.  I've never seen
anything like it before.  It is rather large, but it has a bench, with a
little girl and a little boy sitting on it sharing a book.  And, it even had
some colors in it, rather than plain gray.  Well, the reason it appealed to
me is that we have both granddaughters and grandsons, thus the boy AND girl;
plus, I love to read and have always read to the grandkids when they were
younger.  They only had that one and she gave me a good deal on it.  Love
it!  Nanny