Tablecloth
I've gotten away from using a tablecloth since it's just my husband and me at home now and we have table with a formica top which is easier to keep clean without a tablecloth. We got a new dining room table, though, a nice wood one, and it definitely needs a tablecloth for protection of its surface when we eat meals there.
I got out a tablecloth I have not used in years, a wedding present back in 1956. It definitely shows signs of age. Its pattern is faded but the material is still good.
Suddenly I started to remember mealtimes when I was a kid at home. My mom always had a table runner on the kitchen table, with the brown ceramic McCoy well with some ivy, or a cutting rooting. We would take this off the table at meal times and put the tablecloth on before setting the table. After meals, we would shake the tablecloth outdoors and fold it up again and put the runner and well back on the table.
I remember setting the table with the Fiestaware dishes. I know I had assigned a color to each person. There were four colors and we had four people in our family. Now I don't remember the color assignments, except that I probably took the blue one for myself. I don't know what happened to the dishes, but I now have the salt and pepper shaker from the set. One is green and one is red. The red one has smaller holes, for pepper.
Funny how a tablecloth can take me back to a memory that was almost forgotten.
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