This afternoon, Ashley was given a very special gift. My dad bought a new dining room table, so he gave his old one to Ashley. It is meaningful because it was a table that my mom chose. We ate holiday and family dinners around it for many years before she died in 2011.

This is how the table looked in the dining room on November 25, 2009:

It has two large leaves (extensions) which we took out in order to get it upstairs. This is how it looks today without those leaves:

Like our dining room table, four people can sit on each side when the leaves are in place.

It’s funny because dad sold the house to us in 2012. At that time, the table went with him. It is finally back home.