Clay heirloom in a lively house

She was a treasured family heirloom, put upon a high pedastool and treated as fragile. In a few ways she was like an heirloom, she was the oldest in their family and was expected to carry on the bloodline however, every time the kids ran up and down the hallway or the parents blasted bass heavy music while they talked about creating their own clay pots, it rattled her. The clay heirloom had cracks in it from carrying so much weight and being dropped all those years for you see how can the heirloom continue the bloodline if she could not create a clay pot herself? Many times she had tried and failed and each time she was met with despair, soon they will find out and whether or not they will accept this cracked clay pot as it is or reject her will decide if it will break.