my dad is downsizing, and moving out of the house where I grew up. While going through his house, my dad came across this.
I made it in kindergarten, so it’s at least 50 years old.
the burn on the left came from my mom many years later: she thought I made this for my stepmother, so passive aggressively had an “accident” with it on the stove. she had already destroyed my sister‘s plate a few years earlier.
I honestly thought the damage was much worse, and it was lost forever – it makes me unbelievably happy to have found it.
I do remember saving it from getting completely ruined, and the embarrassment my mom felt when I informed her that this plate was made for her years before my parents divorced.
that week was a big turning point in our relationship. She finally understood the damage her actions caused her kids during that rough period in our lives, as she and I discussed it at length, for days. I don’t think any of my siblings had the deep conversations with her that I had at ...