As we gathered around our dining table on Christmas night, I saw my mother-in-law’s eyes light up when she looked down at her place setting. There, on the cloth napkins I only bring out on special occasions (I avoid extra laundry at all cost!), was the silverware that had belonged to her parents and was then gifted to us when we got married. A few days before Christmas I had taken the time to make sure each piece was polished to its original shiny state and the silver sparkled under the soft glow of twinkling lights on the Christmas tree nearby. The silver was given to Nellie and Llewellyn as a wedding gift in 1924 and then passed onto my in-laws in 1968 who then gave it to us in 1998. And it meant so much to them to see it gracing the table where three generations broke bread together in honor of the birth of our Savior.
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