Ancestral Ponderings.......I Live Among Their Furniture......

While on Stay Cation last week I spent a lot of time cleaning my house. I realized that I live among the furniture of my husbands ancestors.  Our house is a mixture of old pieces of furniture that have been handed down through the generations.

We have furniture from my husbands families old beach house.(This is the cats favorite place to sit)  This chair is older than me.  And furniture from family members who were moving and wanted to bless us with some nice extra things in our house.

Bureaus from ages past..... I'm not sure any of the the old furniture has any real value, but I love to sit and think about who might have had it before me.  What did they keep in them, perhaps some hidden treasure.

....and bed sets too.  I don't think there is much in our house that we have even bought.  And the quilts are all made lovingly by my mom. 

I recently read a book called "Fire Bird" where the main character could hold an item and know about the previous owners.

I would love to have that ability.  To be able to sit on one of these old pieces of furniture and know about those who owned it before me. The rocking chair though, it is new.  It is special because my in-laws had it made for me when my son was born.  When my grandparents were moving I had wanted one of their rocking chairs, but they didn't give me one.  How I would have loved to sit in a chair that was theirs and remember them and our time spent together.  Perhaps though I'll pass this chair down to my children or grandchildren, and they will think about me and know that I spent hours rocking in this chair with my babies.

Do you have any old furniture from relatives long gone, do you think about them when you sit on them and wonder what their lives might have been like?

G.G.