Odds and Ends

I'm not sure we've EVER had a matching full set of silverware in our house. As a result, all of us somehow ended up with our favorite fork. Ashli's had a wooden handle and we think it fell behind the stove a few years ago, but we never did find it even when we put in a wood floor and moved the appliances out.

Kurt's has a blue handle and it was lost for a long time, too. But I found it one day under the shoe rack in our closet along with a plate... apparently he had hurriedly stashed it there when he heard me coming down the hall ..in an effort to hide the fact that he was eating messy, greasy enchiladas in the bedroom.

Tyler likes the one with rounded edges on the handle and if there is a drawer full of clean forks, but that one is dirty, he will wash that one fork in order to use it.

But of us all, Zack is the most loyal to his fork, a tiny little fork with an intricate design on the handle. I actually think it belongs to a set of Kurt's Moms and we ended up with it somehow, but Zack loves it. When Mack married into the family, one of the first "rules" he learned was NOT to use Zack's fork when he ate at our house. So... Zack moved to college last week.. and took his fork with him. Tonight when I washed the dishes and put Tyler and Kurt's forks in the drawer, I was way sad that Zack's wasn't there. I miss him. And his fork.