The Special Plate

This post is nothing special - just nostalgia. I saw a posting on one of my favorite blogs - www.themcmommychronicles.com - about plates. And it made me remember my family's "special plate." No photos here, because all the special plates I could find online were red. My family's special plate was white with multicolored lettering.

Getting the special plate was special. Duh. Of course you got it on your birthday. And sometimes you got it on other days too - if I played well in a basketball game (which almost never happened, so I'm sure I didn't get the special plate too often for that), if I brought home a good report card (I almost always did, but my parents were usually not that interested in my grades), so really, I guess, I don't know what the special plate was for. It was probably for little things that I can't remember that made someone special that day. There are 5 kids in my family, & it was special if anyone got the special plate, so it's not like it was rotated, & it was bound to come to you every 7th day (parents were included in special plate status). It was just special. Someone would say before dinner sometimes: "______ deserves the special plate tonight because ______." That was all.

I like the special plate idea. I think I want one for my family.