Raising old fashioned girls, In a modern world

Okay so I will admit it....I would love it if my daughters didn't get hit full force with feminism.

I would love it if they could marry and be stay-at-home-moms...like me and my mother before me...but lets face it, its never going to happen.

And the reality of it is, they would be better off if they were self-sufficient so that they wouldn't have to worry about "what if" when it comes to their men.

This being said, and it is a round about way to get to my subject....my 8yr old, who is home sick today, has asked me to contact Santa (yes I still have my kids asking Santa stuff, even my 16yr old asks) and see if he could possibly find a pie server in Grannyware to go with the pie plate she got this year for Yule.

I figured fine...I'll go to the internet, you can find practically ANYthing on the internet.

Accept a Grannyware pie server.

The one site that keeps popping up is Lehman's. I love Lehmans, its where I go to help Santa find the Grannyware she has now. Yes I did find some at Walmart for slightly less but it is seasonal...and who wants to think of winter holidays during the summer? Well, okay, I do....but hubby doesn't and nothing goes in the cart that doesn't meet with his approval-well on some level.

Heck, I can't even find the eating utensils in the grannyware anymore...spoons I can get, but they are really too large to use as teaspoons....they are more like soup-spoons....but less than serving spoons. Everything seems to have been replaced with plastic. PLASTIC!!!

I want to make an investment when I buy things....that was the nice thing about the Grannyware. I could get it for her now, and chances were great that even if she used them, they would still be servicable by the time she got out of college and started a home of her own.

Well she has been using them. The two-cup coffee boiler I got her is too small to fit the stove burner so heating water is an adventure...even at the heat at the lowest setting while still being able to produce a flame that will boil water is too large to concentrate the heat upon the bottom of the pot...plus the lid has fallen off. The metal they use to make the clip that holds it to the handle is very soft and bent way too easily. But when it still works okay to pour hot water into and make 2 cups of cocoa.

And her cups, plates, & bowls are doing very well standing up great to the test of time. Although she has found that the bowls do get warm when I put in soups and stews--but she still loves to eat out of them.

The spoons-they are a disappointment. For some reason the enamel coating on the bottoms did not seem to be as strong as the rest of the spoon. I would have expected chipping from the sides of the spoons from stirring, or the handle for tapping to get stuff off the spoon-bowl...but no...the enamel wore off first on the highest part of the spoon-bowl on the back side. She has had two of the four she got develope rust in those areas.

I suppose I should order her new ones...but if she uses these two just for play I think she will be okay.

Now if only I could find smaller cups for her as well in the dark blue granny. she has the 2 cup size now and, well, she can't have a tea party with them if she has to constantly refill the pot, can she? I know easy solution-buy her a bigger pot. But still and nice 10-12 oz cup would be nice.

She has learned a lot playing with this set. Pretending to make dishes and then asking me for my opinion of them.

I would love to keep the fun going. But the items I noticed are made in Mexico--and after the recalls made of Chinese produced products I have to wonder if items from Mexico couldn't be an issue also.

I wish some American company would make them....keep the price down....and make more peices than what is being offered now.