Mama's China

Yesterday, Mama's china became my sister, Jill's and my china.  

You see, it's a Mama like ours who has the heart and wisdom to figure out how to do a "Solomon" thing.  

Two daughters.  One set of china.  

One daughter born in the country where the china was purchased with a love for it and its place of origin.  The other daughter, American born but with a tender heart for a small piece of the Germany which had so influenced our mother when she was but a young woman.

Both daughters greatly loved and much cherished.  One mother doubly loved and doubly cherished.

So, as our Mama is oft known to do, she set about asking God how to do the most noble of things…honor the daughter born in the china country while honoring the daughter whose heart had a tender spot for the beautiful and lovely, too.

And, as God is always good to do, He provided the spark of an idea which grew into the greatest of gifts…that of buying, combining, sharing, and dividing…….all surrounded by a mother's love.

Having had my Mama for over 53 years now, I know from her teaching  that God walked this journey with my mother as she sought out and made the purchase of many duplicate pieces so that each of her daughters could have, literally, "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."

                                                                    Rosenthal's Princess (es) Bettina

And so it was that on Monday, July 20, 2015 at her home, she bequeathed her beautiful fifty-three year old china to her much beloved daughters….where joy, laughter, sharing….where kindness, tenderness, and lots of bubble wrap were used to wrap up great boxes of the most beautiful of china ever known…

China given from a mother to her much beloved daughters….a symbol of a mother's love and a daughter's joint receiving….

Blessings,

Lesa