Tea party (Anna)

Yesterday, I attended my first ever mother's day tea party.

I arrived at Emma's day care and my little daughter put her hand in mine and said, "Come with me, Mumma," and took me into the back room, which was labelled "Ladybug Cafe". She sat me down on a kid size chair at at a kid size table that was covered in a ladybug tablecloth, and handed me a menu decorated with ladybugs.

Then, we shared a plate of goodies that contained a large croissant and a baby croissant, a large chocolate-covered strawberry and a baby chocolate-covered strawberry and some grapes. Unlike most of the tea parties I have with Emma, the food was neither plastic nor imaginery. Emma did a lovely job of sharing and offering me bites (three bites for Emma, one for Mumma, repeat.) And we drank lemonade with added frozen raspberries, which was a delightful combination, from little cups, and had a lovely conversation with each other and with other kids and their mums/moms before Emma presented me with a beautiful mother's day piece of art.

It was almost perfect. Almost, because Caroline was out of town at a conference and so couldn't be there. We missed her - no mother's day celebration can be complete without her! But it was a wonderful, wonderful tea party with fabulous company. Makes me tear up just thinking of how proud and excited Emma was. Or maybe that was me.