Tea for Two

Corrie and and I had a real-live tea party, complete with my grandmother's teacups (a creamer makes an excellent teapot for little hands):

I worried about Corrie accidentally dropping them, but only for about two seconds.  Because then I thought about how much my grandmother would've loved this.

Comments

[Amber]

Fabulous photo! I love that you were willing to risk the breakage for this precious memory!

[Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates]

That's so wonderful - what a delightful memory that will be! And the tea set is just beautiful!

I love pretty tea things and have several pieces that I inherited. I'm a firm believer in using the pretty stuff instead of just displaying or keeping packed up.

[Rebecca]

Yay for you! Awesome!

[LifeatTheCircus]

That is so fun (for both of you)! Way to use the pretty stuff instead of keeping it locked away in the cupboards!

[Donna]

We love having tea parties! My two-year-old grasps her teacup with both chubby hands, trying to be dainty and failing adorably!

The kids love helping to bake something ahead of time (usually a simple cookie recipe) and then choose their tea flavor. It's a big deal around here!

[Angela]

So very very sweet - they are only little for so long, and this is a lovely example of what that time is made of!

Sigh!

[Kim]

Oh what a sweet time for Momma and daughter! And, you are right about how much your grandmother would love for you to play!

[AmyG]

What fun! And I bet your daughter will carry that memory for a long time to come!

[Sandy Toes]

I love tea parties with my girls and they do to! It is a simple thing to do but feels so "special". What memories!
-Sandy Toes

[Angie]

Oh how fun! As Sue Bender says in her book, Plain and Simple, "Things are made to be used, not revered." What a delightful memory you've just made with your daughter.

[mimi2six]

Gally would have loved this!

[kristi]

Oh, I just love this! We eat Sunday dinners after church on my Granny's china. She would love this too. Blessings to you today!

[Valerie]

Some of my sweetest memories are of when my now teenaged daughter and I would have little tea parties. Even now, she and I often cuddle with a cuppa chammomile, and discuss important life events. We typicall brew a pot in my Mom's antique tea set, and nibble on biscoti or tarts. What a blessing that you're sharing this with your daughter!

[Tootie]

What a wonderful memory you made for yourself and your daughter! I hope I do things like this when my husband and I have kids.

[Ann Voskamp (Holy Experience)]

This brought tears.
Each time I steep a pot of tea in my grandmother's china, I think of how I'd give anything for her to sit with these girls of mine and sip laughter and dancing eyes and just a bit of an afternoon together.

So we'll steep these days in memories and know our grandmothers would smile.

Thank you, as always, Shannon...
All's grace,
Ann

[Hope@Pinkadoodledoo]

I LOVE your teaset! I've been looking for a set to start doing teaparties with my girls. (5,4,2) I may have to ask around and see if any family members have one as an heirloom. The older ones are so much prettier! I want to start doing teaparties as a tradition that is our special time together as girls and carry it into their adulthood!

[marni]

Gorgeous set!
My mom gave me her antique sugar and creamer set with pink flowers on it when I first got married, and I broke the lid in half within a week or so...without kids. I ended up gluing the two halves together with a few teenie chips missing, and it gets used anyway. Sometimes I like to imagine that the items (whether it's an antique dish or quilt or chair) have thoughts, and like to think that they'd be thrilled to have a grandchild actually touching and using them, rather than being bored sitting on a shelf and collecting dust, and that helps me to go ahead and use them.

[Slacker Mom]

I just love that...cherish those tea parties - soon enough, they ask to go to Starbucks!

[Becky Jo]

That is the sweetest! Love it.

Maybe I will bring out my grandma's dishes ...

Becky Jo

[Jenny from Mommin' It Up!]

very sweet. I am sure your Grandma's smiling!

[Jamie @ Purposeful Pursuit]

Precious!

[Louise]

I love the idea of afternoon tea, and always have (I think I'm really from nineteenth-century England, somehow accidentally born in a modern American body). I can't wait until my little girl's old enough for tea parties!

[Susan]

Very precious. I want to have a tea party this week with some friends. Thanks for reminding me to take the time to make memories with people young and old. :-)

[Miche]

OH that is so cute!! I bet that was fun! That would be the fun part of having a girl....this morning my son proceeded to slam his trains together over and over...delightful and fun to participate in, but also scary!

[Buzzings of a Queen Bee]

Adorable! I love this girlie stuff. So glad I have a daughter who will (one day) do this with me. Have a great Labor Day weekend!
Carrie

[Jenni Wilson]

I always risk breakage at our tea parties. And sometimes it happens. But whatever. I think "Risk Breakage" is a good motto for life. LOL!

[Christine]

AWWWWW! How cute! You know, I LOVE a good tea party but have been a little leary of gettin' out the good stuff with the my girls. Perhaps I should just DO IT and think about how much my grandmother would have loved it too :D Thanks for the inspiration!! I mean, why in the world did I have girls if I couldn't dress em up and do ultra-girly stuff with em!!! ;-)

[Dreaming of Mermaids]

That is precious! I cannot wait to have tea parties with my baby girl! She is only 8 months today!

[Crystal (Koekje Mom)]

Aw, so sweet. That's why I need to have a girl, trying to get the boys to have a tea party with me would never happen, unless of course it was a dirt party and their optimus prime action figures were invited!

Crystal-

[MrsNehemiah]

My parents bought my grandma a set of china for her anniversary. it was the first complete set of dinnerware that she ever had (that didn't come from a gas station)
I was the first person to break one of her plates.

even though she was so proud of those dishes & really loved the gift. she took me aside and gave me a present.
she told me not to tell anyone, but she "never really liked those plates anyway"(this was a downright fib)

as an adult I can look back and see the love that she had for me far outweighed the pleasure she had in her china.

MrsN

[BecauseImTheMommy]

I absolutely adore this! When we found out our last one was a girl, we instantly thought tea party baby shower. The little girls LOVED it! I can't wait to throw one for my daughter when she's older.

[Valerie]

Awesome!! I bet you both had a grand time!! What a fancy tea party.

Nothing better than getting down on there level and playing with them.

[Dev]

we used to have tea parties all the time with my great-grandmother when she came in town. they are memories i will always cherish.

[Penny Raine]

we do this often, it is so fun

blessings, Penny Raine
ttp://www.pennyraine.com/blog

[Lizz @ Yes, and So is My Heart]

I have some odds and ends of my grandmother's china tea cups. I use the cups to hold my jewelry and the saucers are hanging on my daughter's wall. She died when I was only seven, but I have a feeling she would like knowing they were being enjoyed rather than stuck forgotten in a cupboard somewhere.

[Shalee]

That canNOT be little Corrie in the background. I refuse to believe that time is passing so quickly...

[MamaHenClucks]

What a sweet memory you are creating for your little girl! We have one of great grandmas tea cups and I bring it out when one of the chickies has a bad day and needs to sit and chat about it. We sip coffee (mostly sugar and cream for them) and by the time we're done, the drama is over.

[Mama Belle]

Your grandmother really would have loved this. Better to use for this than just sitting in your cabinet.

This will be a moment to remember.

[Rona]

How fun.

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[shannon]

You are absolutely right. What is the point of having lovely things if you don't use them, and how do children learn if you don't give them a chance to experience new things. BTW your Grandmother's china is lovely.

[Lipstickatthemailbox]

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[Anissa@Hope4Peyton]

Oh that is so awesome. We do the same thing, with cups my grandmother handed down. She actually told me - You use these with your girls, they're just cups, let them have fun with them. We've broken several, I mourned the little bit of my grandmother that was gone from my life. But then the next time we had "tea time" I would realize Grandma gave me a lot more than cups to share with my girls.

[Arcadia]

That teaset is gorgeous! I remember 'borrowing' my mums teacups to have tea parties with my granddad when I was a kid. Naturally, she freaked out when she caught us! 'Tea Time' is such an english thing, and yet, despite being english - all my tea is drunk out of mugs, not cups. I admit to dragging out the teaset when my Grandma comes over though. There are times when mugs just won't DO. x

[Asianmommy]

Awww...what a sweet thing to do with your little one.

[Rhonda]

Good for you! Heirlooms are not valuable unless they are shared. I am sure that your grandmother would be proud.

[jamie in rose cottage]

I have that EXACT set, except it's only about ten years old. How neat!

[Kids Bible Crafts]

Its those little moments in life that you will remember forever. I give you lots of props for taking the time out for a tea party. I miss tea parties! Thanks for the idea!