a little spilled milk

Just now as I was walking back into the kitchen after French-braiding Maddie's hair I noticed my cat Azzie sitting rather close to Wyatt's neglected cup of chocolate milk. As I watched she daintily dipped her paw into his cup and licked it clean. She must have been repeating this action for several minutes.

Either she'd had her fill or my presence kept her from continuing her mid-morning dessert and she walked across the table, leaving little kitty prints as she went.

This is my same cat who has on occasion taken part in tea parties with Maddie and myself.

Grandmomma, Azzie and Maddie having tea this weekend.

Hot Tea Conversation

I'm stirring my cup of hot tea...

"What are you making?" Maddie asks.

"Some hot tea," I reply.

"Can I have some, too?" she asks.

"You can share with me," I say.

"No thank you, I'd like to have my own."

I roll my eyes - selfishly I had only made ONE cup of tea and it was in a small tea cup. I opened the cabinet and pulled out another cup and poured half of mine into hers.

Setting the cup in front of her, she gets all excited.

"Oh how sweet of you," she says in her dramatic English accent.

What a silly little girl. It is probably best that my cup was only half full - I rarely get to enjoy a cup of tea before it chills these days!

Tea for two

This is what I happened upon this afternoon when I was coming out of the laundry room...



(it was water!)

Crunch time

Well the numbers aren't final but at this second I have more than 200 guests who have rsvp'd for the annual Ladies Tea at my church. Being the one in charge has been fun, but exhausting to say the least.

So I'm probably not going to be posting anything until the tea is over - but I've cleared my schedule mostly for next week and besides preschool, bible study and LLL I am making NO committments (i just remembered i have band practice tuesday night..). 

So i'm hoping to get some blogging and pictures up - and i'll have plenty of pictures from the tea party - the newspaper is supposed to be there and the church is providing a photographer as well.

I'm excited - I'm exhausted and we have no clean dishes in the house at the moment. 

Someone send me a maid this week!

So if you check out the blog daily - or maybe more than that - you can take a break and wait until next week - unless you don't want to interrupt your schedule or routine (and I'm happy that I'm part of it!). 

Pray for my sanity and for my kids to stay healthy!

tea and milk

At 18 months, Wyatt still nurses a few times a day. He's dropped a lot of the anxiety feedings as I call them - you know when I sit on the floor and he runs over demanding "mak mak mak."

This morning he and Maddie and I were all cuddling in bed (my favorite time of the day really!) and I'd already nursed him when he woke up. We were playing around - Wyatt was taking the paci out of Maddie's baby doll's mouth to make it cry - what a bully! 

He moved over to a different part of the bed and turned around and looked at me and said his usual, "mak mak mak."

"But you've already nursed this morning, " I told him.

"Mommy, he needs some mommy milk," Maddie chimed in. 

"Wyatt, do you want some mommy milk?" I asked him.

"No, No, No - TEA!" he responded.

"Tea, Tea, TEA!"

and his "tea" isn't hot with milk - it's sweet and iced - just like his daddy.

However I had to deny his request since it was 8 o'clock in the morning. His daddy might drink it for his morning beverage, but my kids are either getting milk or orange juice!