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The Trail Table: Why I Pack Placemats for Famil...
My daughter will eat crackers off a rock before I finish unzipping the backpack. She is not picky about the surface. I am. After enough weekends spent wiping sand out...
The Trail Table: Why I Pack Placemats for Famil...
My daughter will eat crackers off a rock before I finish unzipping the backpack. She is not picky about the surface. I am. After enough weekends spent wiping sand out...
What Shaker Peg Rails Taught Me About Storing P...
I used to keep our placemats in a drawer beside the silverware. They sat in a stack, the two we used most often wedged at the bottom. Every meal started...
What Shaker Peg Rails Taught Me About Storing P...
I used to keep our placemats in a drawer beside the silverware. They sat in a stack, the two we used most often wedged at the bottom. Every meal started...
My Grandmother's Easter Table Didn't Need a Bun...
Every March for years, I bought pastel placemats. Bunny prints, egg shapes, pale gingham. I wanted our table to feel like Easter. Then my kids sat down, knocked over a...
My Grandmother's Easter Table Didn't Need a Bun...
Every March for years, I bought pastel placemats. Bunny prints, egg shapes, pale gingham. I wanted our table to feel like Easter. Then my kids sat down, knocked over a...
Three Generations of Placemats Taught Me the Re...
My grandmother starched her linen placemats until they could almost stand on their own. My mother kept a stack of vinyl mats in a kitchen drawer, wiped clean with a...
Three Generations of Placemats Taught Me the Re...
My grandmother starched her linen placemats until they could almost stand on their own. My mother kept a stack of vinyl mats in a kitchen drawer, wiped clean with a...
The Best Placemats for Messy Eaters Are in the ...
I used to keep two stacks of placemats in our dining room. One stack held cotton mats for grown-ups. The other held plastic mats for the kids. The cotton mats...
The Best Placemats for Messy Eaters Are in the ...
I used to keep two stacks of placemats in our dining room. One stack held cotton mats for grown-ups. The other held plastic mats for the kids. The cotton mats...
What a Cloudy Ring on Our Oak Table Taught Me A...
Last Tuesday, I cleared lunch and found a cloudy white ring on our oak table. It sat beyond my daughter's placemat, right where she had set her cup of ice...
What a Cloudy Ring on Our Oak Table Taught Me A...
Last Tuesday, I cleared lunch and found a cloudy white ring on our oak table. It sat beyond my daughter's placemat, right where she had set her cup of ice...