My neighbor was having a garage sale last weekend and she had a box of china for sale decorated with roses. It reminded me of the china I bought on eBay a couple years ago for the sole purpose of having tea parties with my daughters. It was still in its box in a closet in Veronica’s room, and we had never used it. I like the set because it has everything, including luncheon plates. The girls like it because it is covered in gold and flowers. So I dug it out a week ago, washed it, moved some dishes around in my dining room to make them easily accessible, and have declared Tuesdays our official day for tea parties.
Last week I made pressed butter cookies in the shape of flowers and butterflies. (The girls got to choose the shapes). Today, we’re having the most amazing zucchini bread you’ve ever tasted. Olivia has already brought to my attention the irony of having tea parties all through the summer when tea is hot, and so is summer. (She was actually stern with me. I could have died laughing. Still, she is quite interested and involved in forecasting the guest list).
So this is what we’re up to today. I know you want to come.
In knitting news, I am up to about 5 inches on Veronica’s Kimono. My friend Shauna pointed out that it’s the exact color of tanzanite. So I’m enjoying it very much.
June 20th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
OMG! Tea parties? Every Tuesday??
*ATTACK HUGZ*
Can I rewind time 15 years or so and have you adopt me? Your girls are so lucky! I can only hope that someday if/when I’m a mum I can be lucky enough to be as awesome a mum as you!
And it gets too hot you can always have iced tea 🙂
June 20th, 2005 at 10:56 pm
How lovely! Yes , I would like to virtually attend! My daughter is the oldest, then I had three boys in a row, so girly things look very appealing to me!
June 21st, 2005 at 12:18 am
Once again, I hope I have girls! How much fun!
June 21st, 2005 at 12:26 am
great idea – reminds me of a miniature tea set I gave my daughter and we used to have tea in it. Really miniature. I might make some tonight.
Thanks for reminding me.
I had heard that Zuchini cake was great bu never tried it.
Barbara
June 21st, 2005 at 2:02 am
Tea! There’s an idea!
I have neighbors I need to get to know better. Their kids could stomp about our huge backyard, and the ladies and I could have tea!
We shall probably have sweet tea for the summer.
Your tea set is lovely, and you are right to get it out and use it!
June 21st, 2005 at 2:13 am
How absolutely adorable and what a fantastic idea! I hope I have a little girl some day to do these kinds of things with.
Maybe this would be a good idea to do when I move to get to know my neighbors. But maybe I should’t pull out the good china right at the beginning…they may think I am a little yuppy or something. What do you think?
June 21st, 2005 at 2:31 am
When *my baby girl* (now 12) was 6, her birthday party was a fancy tea party. We held it at Grandma’s house in the formal dining room, used china, a dozen crystal candlesticks, made peppermint tea, served a 3 layer vanilla cake iced delicately in pale pink with edible glitter…lace on the table, with hot pink candlesticks, artfully scattered pink and silver confetti…I baked flower shaped bread loaves in those Valtrompia bread tubes from Pampered Chef and we had cream cheese and jelly sandwiches on them. All the little girls wore their fanciest dresses – one girl wore a beautiful dress that had been her own mother’s, 30 years before. We still look at the pictures. Tori giggles at the tiara, but she still really loves the memories. So do her mom and grandma, and all the mothers of those who attended STILL talk about it! I think it’s so wonderful that you will do a tea party each Tuesday for your girls – they will NEVER forget it.
June 21st, 2005 at 3:20 am
What a GREAT idea! When they are all grown, what a wonderful set of memories these will be.
June 21st, 2005 at 3:43 am
How fun is that? Oh, I really hope my next one’s a girl… Tanzanite is my favorite stone. By the way, I just found my necklace… I’ve been looking for it since we moved, worried that it had been left behind somewhere. Fortunately, I had just placed it in a safe place… so safe, I had a hard time finding it!
June 21st, 2005 at 11:57 am
The place setting is very cute! Lucky young ladies! 🙂
June 21st, 2005 at 3:58 pm
So cute. When my oldest son was little he wanted to have a tea party. We made invitations and invited all of his friends (all girls). The girls all brought dress up clothes. We baked crackers and cookies and served warm vanilla milk. It was so much fun. He’s over that now…
June 21st, 2005 at 4:12 pm
When a friend and I would have tea after school every week in Grade 12, we would always pick a theme: a colour, a decade, a level of formality. It probably helped that we were in the same sewing class and could whip stuff up.
When I was a girl, I had a pink Value Village bridesmaid dress I wore *all the time*. I’m not sure how “girly” your girls are, but maybe they would like to dress up too. Gloves, hats, shawls… you could start a treasure box of lady clothes.
Or maybe that’s just me. 😉
June 21st, 2005 at 10:01 pm
How wonderful! When I was young, my sister, mother and I would often spend our summers staying with my grandparents (my dad was military and travelled a lot). My grandparents had an elderly spinster neighbor. We kind of adopted her. Anyway, every week she would have wonderful little tea parties for my sister and me. Sometimes my mother was lucky enough to be invited too. She had quite a collection of fanciful tea pots and each week a different pot was used. I loved those tea parties.
I wonder if my boys would enjoy a tea party?
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:26 am
Thank you, ladies, for a lovely afternoon of tea!! I cherish the time and will forever treasure the memories.
Love,
Gayle
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:33 am
You are so blessed to be able to do these things with your daughters. Cherish this time because not all mothers these days get that kind of opportunity.
June 25th, 2005 at 11:21 am
Ohhh! When my sister and I were in elementary school, we used to make tea snacks out of the Anne of Green Gables Treasury ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140172319/qid=1119748543/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9713306-0315207?v=glance&s=books ) — your girls may still be a bit young? But we loved it. I’m jealous of them and of you that you’re still enjoying tea time! 🙂