A to Z April Challenge: S is for Step Stool

This is a continuation of LAST APRIL’s challenge about HEIRLOOMS. When my sister and I cleaned out our parents’ home, we had to make many decisions about what to do with all the stuff. Which things are truly “valuable” and which have only sentiment in their favor? Should we sell it, keep it, or throw it away? To help ensure a future for our family’s heirlooms, I plan to leave a booklet for my daughters telling the stories of what they will inherit one day. (Not TOO soon, I hope!)

is for the little step stool that belonged to my grandaunt Helen Killeen Parker.

The saying always amuses me:

This little stool is mine

I use it all the time

To reach the things I couldn’t

And lots of things I shouldn’t

Obviously the humorous poem suggests it was intended for use by a child. In fact, that is how I use it. It is in the guest bathroom so that the grandbaboos can reach the sink when they come to visit.

However, Helen had no children, so I wonder if she purchased it for the nieces and nephews who might have visited her. Poem aside, it would still be a handy device in the kitchen for an adult to reach whatever rests on the top shelf of the cabinet.

Wendy

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