Mother's Day

This Mother's Day we had the pleasure of my parents coming to visit us (which I think they did last year too but I didn't blog about it?). I've discussed how amazing my mom is before. Another thing that my mom is amazing with is moving. She rocks at helping me set up our new digs, especially the kitchen. We're moving in a week (a week. AGK.) so my mom and dad came for the weekend to start the process, my dad is going home for part of the week to work and coming back later to finish helping us move. My mom is staying for the week to help because she's amazing.

I'll preface the following excitement with a little disclaimer that although I think that it's a good idea to take a day and appreciate our moms (like I said, mine is amazing and totally deserves the recognition more than once a year), I really think that Mother's Day (and Father's Day etc) are kind of just greeting card holidays. Commercialism! Not that I'm trying to get out of getting a card/gift or that I don't want to bless my mom but I just think it's one more way we're exploited by marketing etc. So in my attempt to keep it in check, Blake doesn't have to get me a card and/or gift. However, I'm not opposed to using the 'holiday' to make a fun memory or have a fun experience together. Case in point - I've been looking for an excuse to have a tea party so what better excuse than Mother's Day!

We booked a high tea at a local tea store for my parents and us. The store is classic. Every square inch is filled with Victorian decor or tea paraphernalia. Emerson slept through the first part but when she woke up she sweetly sat on my lap until the end when she switched to Papa's lap. She was great! We decided to have a couple of extra pots of tea (we're tea junkies and the tea store owners know we're loyal regulars which I guess it has it's perks) and that was longer than our little 10 month old wanted to sit around. So Papa took her walking while we finished our last few sips cups. Ahh. It was perfect! I loved every second of it!

Enjoying her baby-sized tea spoon

They have a bunch of fun hats for tea parties (if you want them).. grandma couldn't resist.
Emerson wanted nothing to do with it though!

Our tray of goodies - and they were good!

We had our two favorite teas - Ginger Peach and Creamy Earl Gray (by Market Spice Tea, no other 'cramy earl gray' has compared to theirs.. trust me we've tried several). We also tried a new tea, a Strawberry Cream White tea, and we revisited Creamy Earl Gray :). Emerson loves to share my herbal tea at home, but since this was caffeinated she only got a sip, then we switched her to water. She sure loves drinking out of tea cups though :).