This unique 4"x4" dining set was bought at a furniture shop called ECO in Marine Parade Central. The shop sells all solid wood furnitures like this. The original color for the wood stains had been retained since the first day we set our eyes on it.
This dining set had been dragged to many different corners of our house as and when our creative juices flowed (mind you even the chairs are heavy). Around this table we saw how our family grow from just the twosomes into a family of 5. Many guests have sat round this table for meetings, meals and even counselling. Like part of our family this dining set has gone through many Christmas gatherings and birthdays celebrations, always being stretched to its limits with food and people fully packed around it.
Our babies ate at it on their highchairs, the toddlers would romp about in their walkers knocking into its legs countless of times. As the children enter school, it would be a homework table with books and papers all spread about. Craft work was done over it when we mothers gather over breakfast meetings. Sometimes I would use it for some sewing and mending jobs in the afternoons, or computer work, or writing letters. Interesting dishes I've never cooked before and will never repeat again were boldly served on it. Sometimes the disciplining of the children over their mischief. Tears shed and tissues passed over the table when my teen was discouraged at school. Many life changing conversations have taken place at this table. Broken relationships mended, love restored.
We've never imagined that our family would grow to be so big. But because our family loves to eat together and have guests over so we had decided to upgrade to a 5" round marble table which can seat 8 to 10 people.
There is a nostalgic and somewhat sentimental feeling lingering in my heart as I write this post. The other family that is going to have it is a young family. May this dining set see them through their seasons of growth as a family as well.
Goodbye my lovely dining set.
