Instead of featuring a family’s teatime today, I wanted to light a candle for the VA Tech students who have been senselessly killed in the massacre yesterday. We’ll be observing a time of silence during our teatime today.
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Teatime at our house
Teatime
Originally uploaded by juliecinci.
When we’re in a pinch, we use croissants and jam for teatime. They can be frozen after purchase and easily reheated in the oven when we need them. Johannah is gone more than she’s home now, but when she’s here, we try to have our teatimes so that she can join us.
Poetry Teatime: Happily and hopelessly addicted
Hello Julie,
I love your tea time ideas! I became happily and hopelessly addicted to the ritual a number of years ago. Thus, my 12 year old has enjoyed tea time since we began homeschooling in first grade. We will take our tea any time, any where, but have become a little particular about “how.” Yorkshire tea steeped to perfection with just the right amount of cream is the ideal for us.
Monday and Tuesday afternoons are set aside for “formal” tea time in our home. Here’s the way it goes: we begin by reading a Psalm from a lovely hand made book given to us from another tea loving friend. Then my 12 yr. old recites the poem he has been working on (this week it was Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life”). After a stellar performance, we pour out the tea and enjoy scones or another treat while we do a picture study Charlotte Mason style.
We are working on art by Giotto di Bondonne right now. We add a new picture each week. Now duly inspired, Colin works on drawing one of the pictures from our study while I read. This year it has been Shakespeare, Dickens, some books about St. Francis and some historical fiction. On Tuesdays we improvise; usually I read while Colin works on an art project. Our happy event (as well as my white table cloth) is sprinkled with delightful and messy interruptions by my two year old. We finish by reading a passage from an uplifting and beautiful book, A Grateful Heart.
Thank you for your inspirational ideas and tremendous support. What a community you have created!
Warmly,
Michelle
Tuesday Teatime
Dear Julie,
Here are a couple of photos. The centrepiece was chosen in a bit of haste – it’s an oriental jar, but we had no flowers on hand…
Thank you again – it was lots of fun.
Kristina
Tuesday Teatime: Red Hats
Hi Julie-
I know you like poetry teatime photos. We did our teatime on valentine’s day this week, so we dressed in red hats, and had cake made from scratch ( I didn’t know you could make cake without a box….) and the roses from my DH on the table. We read Shakespeare. My 9 year old was delighted to hear “double double, toil and trouble, fires burn and caudrons bubble’ was Shakespeare. Even in my red hat, she said I looked like a witch with my grey hair and haggard voice as I read that passage.
Blessings,
Vicky
