Monday, May 04, 2009

We'll miss you, Table!

This is our table. Well, this was our table. It's been a great table but it was time for us to part and now someone else has it.


We got this table at Dingo's Furniture store in Freeport, Texas about 17 years ago. After having been married for about 3 years and when Tori was about 1 year old, it was our first major furniture purchase. It left our house this past Saturday morning to become a great table for another family.

If I've counted correctly, it has been moved with us 7 times. Isn't that the number of completion or something?

We've shared many a meal as a family and with friends around this table. We've called many "Stunz family meetings" to this table. A lot of homework has been done at this table over the years. A lot of tears have been shed at this table as well as a lot of laughter. It has staged a host of super cute birthday cakes and party foods for after dance parties and holidays. Oh, and we've played a ton of games with friends and family around this table where mostly girls won. Ok, maybe we tied......

Among many other things, it has also served as a craft project table and even had Tori's baby footprints etched into it from a project we did when she was a baby where the chemicals from the paint leaked through the fabric. Those footprints have long since worn off and we are left with only memories.

It is time for a new table to help us bring in this new chapter in our lives. Once we move to Singapore, we're hoping to purchase a new and grand dining table with some authentic Asian inspiration that will be a cherished addition for our family for years to come.

But for now, we have a fold out table and a few card table chairs. What an accurate picture of our transitional life right now.

Good-bye table. Parting is such sweet sorrow. You will be missed! (and replaced) :)

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