This is my last chance to post before my mom comes home (she is arriving back from Mexico any minute now). Even though this is largely a book/homeschooling blog, I thought I’d change things up a bit by listing the menu I prepared for my little sisters’ tea party yesterday afternoon at four o’ clock. We had:
– chicken salad sandwiches
– cucumber sandwiches with mint butter
– milk and honey bread with honey butter
– jam thumbprint cookies
– raspberry tea
It is a lot of fun to have a tea party with four little girls between the ages of four and seven, all gussied up in their best dresses. Though we didn’t have matching blue china, Frances would have approved.
What a wonderful big sister!
This newsletter always inspires me. Thank you, Rachel for the idea of having a tea party with little girls. I have nieces and am their ‘creative’ aunt. You’ve given me the idea to invite them for a tea party of my own. I rarely have a reason to dress up and surround myself with flowers and little girls so I’m probably more excited than they will be when they get my invitations. I haven’t even read the rest of your article but am looking forward to it and to collecting some ideas. I’m also a Christian and a public school teacher so many things that you and your mom have written over this past summer (since I discovered you…. or did you discover me?) … well – you’ve both been a great inspiration. Thank you. Keep the recommendations coming because I’m moving from teaching Kdg. to 5th grade this year and any suggestions on read alouds to my class is always welcomed. I’ve never been a big reader myself so in a way while I’m teaching I’m enjoying the discovery of learning along with them. I’m especially enjoying studying about teaching writing these days and making jewelry as I started my own business on the side called Wabi Sabi Sue. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese art form that literally means ‘finding beauty in what’s broke, old or ugly’. Isn’t that what God does to us? He creates something beautiful with the broken pieces of a sinful lives by turning them into something new and useful.
Any ideas for how to plan a tea party? Any links? Did you have a theme?