Grandma's Apron

Do our kids really know what an apron is?

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath. She only had a few dresses, it was easier to wash aprons and aprons used less material.

Grandma’s apron also served as a potholder; dried children's tears; carried eggs and fussy chicks from the chicken coop, sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven; and, was an ideal hiding place for shy kids when company arrived.

When the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped her apron around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Wood chips and kindling were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.

After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone comes up with something as multi-purpose as the 'old-time apron’.

Nobody ever thought about how many “germs” might be on Grandma’s apron; we didn’t catch anything from Grandma’s apron except love.

(Sent to me via email by my friend, Binky. Thanks Bink!)