Maybe Y2K

My, how things have changed from around the year 2000.

I really like dish towels with a bit of history recorded on them. No, not the stains of cooking or the aroma of grease that permeates a well used kitchen towel. Especially not those that have gotten burned from a variety of reasons and why such things might just happen to sustain a burn.

In our poverty days (aren't we still in them?) we gave dish towels to grandparents often with child art work of flowers, cutesy sayings appropriate to the occasion and my favorite - hand prints. Some of the choice but worn towels have been returned to reside in our kitchen drawer. I get a kick out of pulling out a towel and seeing the scribblings of 2 year olds and adolescents from 30 years ago. I have a newer set which has the hand prints of different ones of our grandchildren. I save them for lesser messy jobs so they will stay nice to pass down eventually to reside in a drawer of the kitchens of our children.

I pulled out a towel today to lay over hot bread coming out of the oven and noticed the fun pictures emerging from its place in the drawer. It was one that was done as a gift for me about the year 2000. It was fun to notice the changes that have come about in our family. Jenny and Brian contributed their clever, creative view of life to the towel. Dallan made sure we should "look at" him in his wild shorts. Kay tells the world how she rates. Laura and John were newlyweds, forever nutty and it was just before Evan, Kay and Dallan found the spouses that would consent to marry them.

It is a chuckle that the Evan Gothic included the vacant farmer's wife, now filled by Sue. Long gone is that cynical view of bachelor life. ****************************************

How things have changed for each of our children in those 8 years since this towel came to reside in our kitchen drawer.