Treasures from my mother
Aug. 4th, 2025 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_natural_beautyAs most of you know from reading my older posts, my mother hasn't been doing well for awhile. It comes and goes, but for the most part her health is greatly declining. Both physically and her memory isn't what it used to be. This past week my one eldest sister came up to visit her from out of state so there were a few get togethers over there at my parents. The one was us daughters - three of us - got to go through mom's jewelry boxes and take what we wanted. She wanted to do this now for us. Doing this was sad at first but then talking about and learning more of my mom's little treasures was nice, bittersweet if you will. She sat there and watched and listened as we looked. Once in awhile she forgot about something she wanted from a box. Mostly these were filled with different little treasures over the years. There were a total of five. We could also take a jewelry box of our choice.
I took one of the older looking ones that had some birds on it and trees and flowers, pretty faded. When I opened had a hand painted note that it was made in Japan and a Japanese stamp glued inside. It may have belonged to her mother since she did collect stamps. Or possibly her father since he collected stamps and had an antique store. But she can't remember. The box itself is pretty beat up, it's missing a lock of some kind on the front. But I like it none the less and I'm glad I picked it since I collect stamps and have some of my grandparents stamps.
As we went through our boxes we found stuff that had more meaning to one than the other. Like my sister Faith is more religious than Anna and I, so we gave her things like crosses that we found. I got several pieces of jewelry, a few necklaces with very old colorful beads. I got one necklace that is of pearls (possibly real, I need to check..) but it's broken so at some point I'll need to get it restrung and back together again. And I picked up some other necklaces that they didn't want. After I put them on I felt that I could wear them someday. And some purple beads that go to a necklace or bracelet but are just in a bag now. There were some various rocks of different kinds, I took some of those too. And a little box of fools gold. Also two pieces of little wood, I think driftwood. Some random buttons and other beads. Also some pins of different kinds. Another neat find in my jewelry box I found an old clothespin doll I made years ago! So maybe it was meant to be that I picked up the one I did. I asked my mom about the stuff I collected and some of it she could remember where it came from and other things she couldn't. Overall in general I think I got mostly stuff that belonged to my Grandmother, which is nice. I can't remember her too well since she passed when I was so young. It was a nice experience, sad but in a way it's nice she is doing this sort of stuff now while she is still alive.
I took one of the older looking ones that had some birds on it and trees and flowers, pretty faded. When I opened had a hand painted note that it was made in Japan and a Japanese stamp glued inside. It may have belonged to her mother since she did collect stamps. Or possibly her father since he collected stamps and had an antique store. But she can't remember. The box itself is pretty beat up, it's missing a lock of some kind on the front. But I like it none the less and I'm glad I picked it since I collect stamps and have some of my grandparents stamps.
As we went through our boxes we found stuff that had more meaning to one than the other. Like my sister Faith is more religious than Anna and I, so we gave her things like crosses that we found. I got several pieces of jewelry, a few necklaces with very old colorful beads. I got one necklace that is of pearls (possibly real, I need to check..) but it's broken so at some point I'll need to get it restrung and back together again. And I picked up some other necklaces that they didn't want. After I put them on I felt that I could wear them someday. And some purple beads that go to a necklace or bracelet but are just in a bag now. There were some various rocks of different kinds, I took some of those too. And a little box of fools gold. Also two pieces of little wood, I think driftwood. Some random buttons and other beads. Also some pins of different kinds. Another neat find in my jewelry box I found an old clothespin doll I made years ago! So maybe it was meant to be that I picked up the one I did. I asked my mom about the stuff I collected and some of it she could remember where it came from and other things she couldn't. Overall in general I think I got mostly stuff that belonged to my Grandmother, which is nice. I can't remember her too well since she passed when I was so young. It was a nice experience, sad but in a way it's nice she is doing this sort of stuff now while she is still alive.
