Big Love Stories

Beloved Mimi, 2005

This is Mimi.  But don’t remember her like this (except the smile).    Remember her in her kitchen…baking chocolate chip cookies, making toffee, roast beef, mashed potatoes and green salads with kidney and garbanzo beans on top.  Remember jello pudding with cool whip, canned peaches, apricot cobbler and mini pizzas.  And remember that old high chair where we all sat, watching her and nibbling on samples while she cooked?

The old high chair with new tray and seat cushion

Well, here it is…revisited.  When I had Leif, Mimi passed the old high chair on to me.  I was thrilled to have something so nostalgic and functional. I used it for both of my boys and it has been resting in the basement ever since.  Until recently, when my eldest cousin had a baby.  This meant that the old high chair needed to be pulled out, cleaned up and passed on.  When I dragged it out of the basement, I realized it needed some love to be usable by another baby.  First, it needed a new tray.  The old one had huge cracks in it filled with food and was held together by old staples.  It also needed a new cushion.  You can see both renovations in the picture above.

And, when I turned the high chair upside down in the process of making the cushion I noticed this sweet little note stuck to the bottom.

Note from Mimi

Happy days, indeed.  Add Leif and Kai to the list…that makes a lot of kids who have sat in this high chair.

Leif in the old high chair

Kai in the old high chair

And, now…baby Ever.

To many good times in kitchen to come.  I still love you so, sweet Mimi.