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Hello, friends! Happy Saturday!
I hope your morning coffee was excellent!
I have two stories to tell about these objects.
The metal spoon was a gift from my mother-in-law to my daughter when she turned eight months old. It was a spotaneous gift. She taught me with that spoon the way she used to give her own babies soups, many years ago. Then she put the spoon in the stroller. My daughter ate soups with it until it was too small a spoon. To this day, we still use it regularly to sweeten coffee. When I use it, I remember my mother-in-law, who adored her children and grandchildren. She was a good person.
The wooden spoon was a gift from an extraordinary friend when she went to live in Spain for a few years. When she gave it to me, the wood was the same color as the wood of the table, today it is very dark from the many coffees it has sweetened. I was very happy when she returned. Every time I use this spoon, I remember her and, many times, it all ends up in a couple of whatsApps and a date to have a coffee and update gossip. She is a very good friend, whom I love enormously.
By the way, the stain on the wood of the table is from the many coffees I have spilled there half asleep! hahaha....

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It’s great that you keep such a precious gifts and use them to brew your coffee with. I don’t think that I own anything so meaningful like your spoons. Thanks for meeting us with them!

Thank you for your kind words!
It is true that the sentimental memory that objects hold makes them more valuable.
I think some of that encourages our desire to keep them as treasures even if their material value is little. Time can do that operation: some object you keep from your childhood... Like Mr. Tootles' marbles in the movie Peter Pan.
In one of these community conversations, someone put his mom's coffee mug,
Someone else a coffee set that was a wedding gift... All of them were chests of memories and evocation of beloved feelings. Their contemplation is a small gift every time.

Happy coffees,@mdosev.

Most of the time people keep their most precious items away, to keep them shiny and new, but putting them in use is maybe a wiser option. You can use them with care and be sure that they will last long time, like your wooden spoon!

I agree. Even if they get a little damaged, the scratches, the little marks of use are testimony to life passing by. That is wonderful!
Hugs!

... from the many coffees it has sweetened...

maybe the spoon remember her side of this story too... nice reading it was!! 🐈

They say that mixing coffee with a wooden spoon is more delicious and healthy. But when those spoons have history they are even more special, always take care and value them.

Hi! Thanks for reading my comment. I don't know if it is healthier, what I do believe is that remembering loved people or the positive things left by anyone in our life feels good, improves the mood and, with the morning coffee, we start the day with a kind emotional climate.
Best regards, may your coffees today be great!

The importance we give to details comes from our heart and coffee is a connection to that.

Excellently said! I couldn't agree more!

You share some lovely stories about spoons. Many items in our kitchen have stories to tell. At home we also use a wooden spoon to add sugar to coffee.

I leave you a cup of coffee.☕
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Hi, @rinconpoetico7!
Thanks for reading and for the steaming cup of coffee.
Stories and cooking make an inseparable pair in every home. Cooking and reminiscing, cooking and remembering, making a cup of coffee and thinking.... I think it's a common and palcentric experience most of the time.
The kitchen is a great place for stories, of course it is!

Wooo! How many stories your spoons have to sweeten the coffee. Knowing these things gives me so much joy 😊 as I feel like you just invited me for a coffee to tell me. Have a week full of good coffee.

Of course we will have coffee. Just as my little spoons evoke stories, you may remember them when you sweeten your coffee, then you can be sure I'll be wishing you joy. Cheers!

How nice to be able to remember the people we love through certain objects and even more so to make them present in every coffee ☕.

It is like this. And I think we should make ourselves aware of those stories. It's comforting.
Happy coffees!