Grandma's Jewel Tea Dishes
Last night, these all got washed and polished up. My grandmother's Jewel Tea dishes, Bits and Pieces of a set, many of them chipped, but such a nice keepsake of my Grandma's. My Dad's father passed away at a very young age. My grandmother was left with a 12 year old boy and a 10 year old girl to raise in the 1940's when single motherhood was not the norm. She became a nurse and raised them. Later she would remarry, and later she would develop what would seem now to be a very early form of Alzheimer's Disease. Long before any of us had ever heard of that disease, she slipped away from us. I was only 13 when she died. She was in her early 60's. I have so few memories of her when she was healthy. Those that I have, I cherish. She loved to garden and was a beautiful quilter. I can remember helping her with her flowers and I remember her reading to me in a seat in a rose arbor in her backyard. After she passed away, my step-grandfather remarried. His new wife never a...