Stops, starts and slips...

The Online garage sale business is proving quite exhausting, both physically and emotionally. Setting up a photo album full of my random bits and pieces and trying to make them look like JUST the thing my viewers need. What price on a piece of my family history? I keep telling myself it is better to move things quickly so that I can clear the deck, and prevent episodes of regret. So I do, and right about tea time the messages start beeping and bomping. (What is the correct terminology for the noise that your iPhone makes when a message turns up?) I have 2 computers running, and the iPhone, and they all make noises at me simultaneously, while I try to eat dinner and Skype with my husband!
For my daughters, I select a couple of heirloom 'symbolic' gifts. Elise, my youngest will receive the Cake serving set, as I see a gift of hospitality and serving others on her life. Besides this is by tradition, passed to the youngest girl in the family. To my eldest, Melinda, I plan to give the silver cutlery set that was my own baby spoon and pusher, emphasizing the nurturing Mother spirit she possesses.
I pick somethings up and am ambivalent about 'listing' them... like the little Royal Doulton egg cups my sister gave me as an Engagement present 36 years ago. Making the decision that I might send them to one of the kids, I take them out to put them in my sorting boxes and drop one! They survived 36 years of breakfasts, holding toothpicks for parties (their main occupation), 5 kids wanting a boiled egg in Mum's egg cup and the occasional grandchild too, and also countless moves. Then a split second's loss of concentration sees one plummet to the ground.(I hope you look after the survivor, Melinda). 
It somehow brings home our own inevitable 'breaking of the set', and I am convinced that our choice to make life happen together, is a a good decision. We just don't know when that slip may occur so best to enjoy our matched status. I am grateful for the 35 years of adventure we've had and look forward to the future.

Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; Ecclesiastes 12:6