This thread has been opened for our 'apron buddies' chat.
I thought you all might enjoy this before we start off. This is something my favorite cousin/friend sent because she knew how I loved aprons.
Perhaps you may want to pass this down to your favorite persons too =)
(Author unknown)
The History of Aprons
I do not think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a pot-holder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks,
and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, as she was bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in Apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron,
and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace
that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used her apron to set her hot baked apple pies on the windowsill to cool. Her Granddaughters set theirs on the windowsill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I do not think I ever caught anything from an apron--except love.
