The Tea Party Tradition

Tea parties are something that every girl should enjoy. Over the past six years my sister and I have made a tea party tradition with our Idaho cousins, each time that we get together with them, we have a tea party.

Each year's tea party has been very different. We've held dress up tea parties and come as you are tea parties, picnic tea parties and elegant dining tea parties. But there are several parts of our tea parties that have never changed, there are always the same four girls, and we always serve 'angeled' eggs, cucumber sandwhiches, and tea. And there is always more food than the four of us can eat.

This year as our families were together over the Christmas holidays, we held a Christmas tea party, complete with pumpkin pie, cheesecake, and an assorted box of Christmas cookies, which we had baked in the days proceeding the Tea Party. We brought all of our treats to the upstairs bedroom where we had previously set up our tea table, and proceded to enjoy hearty laughs, more food than we needed and an absolutely splendid time together.