Tea Party

Last week, we needed a little something special.  Our regular homeschool routine was feeling a little dull and lifeless, so I decided it was time for a tea party.

When you have little girls, tea parties are the easiest go-to cure for whatever - for bad days or grumpy attitudes or boredom or celebration.  It always works.   

We whipped up some scones (and added chocolate chips, of course) and some Ginger Lemon tea. I put on some peaceful music to play.  We donned our favorite dresses, brought the dollies to the table, and set out our nicest tea set.  A flowery sheet was our tablecloth.  I pulled some of our favorite poetry books off the shelf and we took turns reading poems to one another, giggling at silly lines and talking together about what the poem might be saying.  

We didn't linger too long.  It started to get hot and our dresses began to feel itchy.  But when we went back to normal life - cleaning up our mess, tackling math and spelling again - it didn't feel like such a chore.  

Tea parties just have a way of setting everything straight again.

Lest you think we're too civilized with all this tea and poetry stuff...

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I am blogging over at the MAF blog as well, today.  Go check it out!

Sean and I just got back from quite the adventure interior.  We're still processing all we saw and experienced. Stay tuned for pictures and stories about the wildest 36 hours of my life so far!