Sharing with Gigi
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I want to share everything with my daughter, but I also need to learn that she is too young to know how to properly treat some of my belongings. So far, I have had the self control to not give her all of my childhood dolls and the carious collector dolls I amassed over my lifetime. I’ve wanted to and it has been a struggle with temptation to just give in and let her have them.
Before I had a child, I could not imagine giving a small child an heirloom, but I suppose once you have your OWN child things are different.
I was just going through my jewelry bow, because writing about losing my wedding rings in an earlier post reminded me that I want to pack a little bit of nice jewelry to take with me to the funeral. I have my nice stuff packed away mostly, because Gigi is quite obsessed with my earrings and necklaces and at this point she is really too young to take care of them. I buy her inexpensive pieces of fashion jewelry to play with, but I try to keep the good stuff out of sight.
Just the other night I was letting her wear a very special necklace my mother had given me. We were picking up some food to use in her packed lunches and all of the sudden I heard an odd clattering sound on the floor of the store. Sure enough, the setting had popped right out of my necklace while Gigi was wearing it. I suppose it could have happened at any time if it was already loose, but it did indeed happen while she was wearing it.
A lot of the gold I was given for my wedding was taken from me in my divorce, so I want to keep safe the few really nice items that I still own.
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