Tea For Two

We had tea this week with Grandma Rand, before she and William went off to Texas to visit Uncle Dale.  The girls were very dedicated about pouring cup after cup and Grandma was very polite about drinking them all. 

In the manners department, things started to fall apart a bit

when they bit the edge of the cups and snorted into them to hear the echo of their own oinks.

They're so civilized.

But, apparently they can pull it all together when you take them out in public.   Nana, the girls and I had a girls day out in Medina this week.  We went to the used bookstore where the girls each picked out two books.  They were charming and engaging with the lovely women who were working the checkout desk.  Each girl was issued her own shopping bag to carry her books to or next stop, Miss Molly's Tea House.  This place is an eruption of lace and flowered wallpaper.  The hostess was wearing a big floppy white hat and it didn't seem the least bit out of place.  I began to have second thoughts after they seated us at a lace covered table with real place settings for the girls. 

Then another patron walked by, winked at me and mom and said, "You're being very brave."

Then I read the bottom of the kid's menu that stated, "Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children."

A little cold sweat is good for everyone, right?

Then they brought each girls milk in their own porcelain teapot with a tiny china cup and saucer to drink it out of.

Oh, dear god.

But, really.  Really.  It couldn't have gone any better. 

The waitress was delightful, the girls were very much enamored of their little milk pots and mom's and my food was delicious.  Watermelon cucumber soup?  Yes, please.  

Lillian and Naomi were great about helping to pour out their tiny cups of milk, sipping them and placing  them gently back in the saucer.  

And?  Miss Molly's is attached to a toy store.  It's like a paradise.