Tuesday Tea Time

The temperature is currently 70F.



The books are:

St. Valentine by Robert Sabuda
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Harold Bloom,
and
All Year Round by Ann Druitt (mostly to flip through and look at craft ideas).

The menu is:

Trader Joe's "Blueberry Estate" blueberry juice, and
Trader Joe's Vanilla Bean mini-cupcakes.

Tuesday Tea Time

It's been weeks and weeks since we've had a Tuesday Tea Time. But we finally have a Tuesday with no other commitments, and can have a leisurely afternoon drinking tea and reading poetry.

The table was set with Christmas plates and placemats, since this IS the Twelfth Day of Christmas:



Trader Joe's provided an assortment of holiday baked goods -- Candy Cane Jo-Jos, Mexican Hot Cocoa Cookies (I'm totally addicted to these), and Almond Snowmen:



and our beverage was chamomile tea.

We read the Lamb version of Twelfth Night. We'd not read that version before. AnnaBeth was disappointed that "it didn't have the letter" -- don't you hate it when your kids remember stray bits of Shakespeare and gripe about abridged versions? I think she was referring to that whole business with Sir Andrew, Maria, and Sir Toby, characters whom Lamb just plain left out.

Afterwards we started to put the Christmas decorations away.

Goodbye until next year, Christmas plates!