Sarah Ann Stradling Haws - My Great Grandmother
Hepzibah Gardiner Hodgkinson - My Great Grandmother
Mary Armina Haws Hodgkinson - My Grandmother
Beverly Rene Smith Hodgkinson - My Mother
Yesterday afternoon I was asked to speak by Barbara Terrill at a Stake meeting welcoming Young Women to Relief Society. Barbara had asked me to talk about my love for aprons and how, when I put one on, I feel like it gives me super powers - like a super hero. I have always loved aprons, and when I was preparing my remarks I figured out why - it is a tradition in our family. I enlarged these pictures for my presentation and then Sister Terrill took a picture with the girls from my seminary class in the aprons that she had made for them (bytheway - she also gave me the one I am wearing). I am going to frame these pictures of the women I love in aprons and I am not going to take my apron off when picture time comes around. I really enjoyed what Barbara Terrill wrote about the event in the Stake Relief Society newspaper - LDS Women - Write One. "Sue Cornwall was our featured speaker - and the theme was Aprons! Each girl received an apron of her own and Sue regaled us with tales of her many adventures with aprons. She also shared some old photos of her great-grandmothers, grandmother and her own mother in aprons. (And commented that the next time pictures are taken, she's not going to take off her apron!) She also had on display many of her own aprons that she has collected over the years. More importantly though, she drew parallels between aprons and our roles as women in Relief Society. She commented that an apron is her "super-hero cape." When she dons one, she feels like she can do anything! As Women, our aprons represent hard work, service and protection - just the sort of thing we do in Relief Society."
Sarah Ann Stradling Haws - My Great Grandmother
Hepzibah Gardiner Hodgkinson - My Great Grandmother
Mary Armina Haws Hodgkinson - My Grandmother
Beverly Rene Smith Hodgkinson - My Mother
Yesterday afternoon I was asked to speak by Barbara Terrill at a Stake meeting welcoming Young Women to Relief Society. Barbara had asked me to talk about my love for aprons and how, when I put one on, I feel like it gives me super powers - like a super hero. I have always loved aprons, and when I was preparing my remarks I figured out why - it is a tradition in our family. I enlarged these pictures for my presentation and then Sister Terrill took a picture with the girls from my seminary class in the aprons that she had made for them (bytheway - she also gave me the one I am wearing). I am going to frame these pictures of the women I love in aprons and I am not going to take my apron off when picture time comes around. I really enjoyed what Barbara Terrill wrote about the event in the Stake Relief Society newspaper - LDS Women - Write One. "Sue Cornwall was our featured speaker - and the theme was Aprons! Each girl received an apron of her own and Sue regaled us with tales of her many adventures with aprons. She also shared some old photos of her great-grandmothers, grandmother and her own mother in aprons. (And commented that the next time pictures are taken, she's not going to take off her apron!) She also had on display many of her own aprons that she has collected over the years. More importantly though, she drew parallels between aprons and our roles as women in Relief Society. She commented that an apron is her "super-hero cape." When she dons one, she feels like she can do anything! As Women, our aprons represent hard work, service and protection - just the sort of thing we do in Relief Society."
Aprons rule!!
ReplyDeleteWay to make a "fad" fantastic!
And thanks for doing such a great job with your remarks!
You inspired the newcomers and the oldcomers!
I still have the apron you gave me as a wedding shower gift (lo, these many years ago) - I still love it! And I heard your talk was fabulous - wish I could have been there. The apron/super power analogy is most excellent.
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