Ladies Celebration Tea

Since this summer, all us ladies (James ladies, their daughters and myself) have made some great accomplishments. For the adults, some of us have made some wonderful personal lifestyle changes (in laymen terms - weight loss program), new jobs/careers and moving into their own homes (no more renting - YEAH!!). Amy opened a scrapbooking business - Hobby Haven - she has a great lettering cutting tool! The two older children Ocean and Sierra began Grade 1 and Journey started preschool. Sara is expecting in February - look forward being there from the start to see he/she grows. It has been so cool to be able to see Sierra, Ocean and Journey grow into the beautiful young ladies they are now. After our tea, the three girls enjoyed the open space of the basement which allowed us older ladies to have a visit. It was a wonderful way to mark the "almost" completion of my basement. I have been blessed to be adopted into the James family and have enjoyed the deeping of our friendships since my move to Calgary (hard to believe it will be 3 years in March).

For our tea, I used two heritage tea sets. The Gold Pot was given to me from my mom's friend a couple of years ago. It was from her huband's aunt and at that time the teapot was 90 years old and was originally from the Oakney Islands in Northern Scotland. The Silver teapot and creamer is a heirloom(paternal side). It was a wedding gift for my great-grandmother (also from Scotland - around Perth/Aberdeen) and it has the letter R engraved (for Rutherford). The custom in our family has beento pass it down from father to son (probably due to the engraved letter R), but of the children in my family I have been the most interested in the family heritage, so my dad felt it fitting to change it abit and pass it to the daughter. So it was nice to use it for today's Celebration Tea.

The Bagels are ready (plain, cinnamon/raisin, blueberry), along with the cream cheese (plain and strawberry) , honey and jams (strawberry, cherry, and of course marmalade). That is my new toaster that I had purchased this morning from Canadian Tire - Thanks mom for the gift card you sent.

Here were our tea selections - We had the Decaf Tea in the silver pot and the Christmas Green Tea in the golden pot.