We had an amazing Mother's Day this year. I figured lately that life is entirely too short to put off using all my delicate tea party things. I wanted to give my mom something special to help her remember her own mother. This amazing woman passed away 10 years ago, but still burns on our hearts like it was yesterday. I put her picture up on one of the gazebo shelves and set an extra tea cup out for her. We tried to not be sad, but rather feel her presence as we drank or lovely English tea and ate our overly English fare. We found ways to laugh because that was something she did so often. We remembered her warmness and really felt her there with us.
I woke up that morning to the revelation of having the party outdoors under our gazebo. The wisteria have done a wonderful job of climbing all over it and it is quickly becoming my favorite area of our garden. I did notice it was quite overcast that morning, but threw caution to the wind and started setting up outside. I didn't even stop to think, "what if it rains??", because I knew if I did, I would worry the fun out of the entire day! The weather was typical English countryside weather and I couldn't have called up and asked God himself for a better setting. We really felt English and we didn't shed one tear...A LARGE feat for the 2 of us, I can assure you.
Leahness was dressed in a lovely pansy'd out dress my mom bought for her a while back before she could fit into it. She has been obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, having seen it twice in the theater! She was thrilled to be having a real life tea party. She was on her best behavior as if we were in a fancy restaurant and she was being watched for her poise, manners and etiquette. I was quite proud of her actually, even though it was just the three of us; three generations of girly-girls who adore anything English and let's just say it, anything fattening.
We had clotted cream, PG tips with sugar cubes and cream, white chocolate scones with lemon curd, cucumber sammies and salmon dill sammies on WHITE bread (**gasp**). I threw in some fruit for some added nutritional value we may have missed with the aforementioned items. YUM!
I was very happy to have the opportunity to spend the day with my "MUM" :). I know a lot of people can't be with their mom's on Mother's Day, due to death, distance or whatever else. I am thankful for my Mom. Father's Day is quickly approaching and it is hard for me every year since my father passed away. I wasn't able to spend enough Father's Day's with him because God needed him more than I did. So I have decided to kind of "out-do" myself for my mom on Mother's Day from now on. I don't know how many we have left because no one knows, so I'm gonna make them count from here on out!
I woke up that morning to the revelation of having the party outdoors under our gazebo. The wisteria have done a wonderful job of climbing all over it and it is quickly becoming my favorite area of our garden. I did notice it was quite overcast that morning, but threw caution to the wind and started setting up outside. I didn't even stop to think, "what if it rains??", because I knew if I did, I would worry the fun out of the entire day! The weather was typical English countryside weather and I couldn't have called up and asked God himself for a better setting. We really felt English and we didn't shed one tear...A LARGE feat for the 2 of us, I can assure you.
Leahness was dressed in a lovely pansy'd out dress my mom bought for her a while back before she could fit into it. She has been obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, having seen it twice in the theater! She was thrilled to be having a real life tea party. She was on her best behavior as if we were in a fancy restaurant and she was being watched for her poise, manners and etiquette. I was quite proud of her actually, even though it was just the three of us; three generations of girly-girls who adore anything English and let's just say it, anything fattening.
We had clotted cream, PG tips with sugar cubes and cream, white chocolate scones with lemon curd, cucumber sammies and salmon dill sammies on WHITE bread (**gasp**). I threw in some fruit for some added nutritional value we may have missed with the aforementioned items. YUM!
I was very happy to have the opportunity to spend the day with my "MUM" :). I know a lot of people can't be with their mom's on Mother's Day, due to death, distance or whatever else. I am thankful for my Mom. Father's Day is quickly approaching and it is hard for me every year since my father passed away. I wasn't able to spend enough Father's Day's with him because God needed him more than I did. So I have decided to kind of "out-do" myself for my mom on Mother's Day from now on. I don't know how many we have left because no one knows, so I'm gonna make them count from here on out!
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