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now THIS is a Tea-Party...WOW

I was surfing the more feminine blogs and came across a couple of the most delightful ones I have seen in a long time.  As most of you know, my granddaughters and I have lots of teaparties.  I've even taken special little cups to school and had teaparties at lunchtime with my grand-girls.

HOWEVER...

when I popped into CREATIVE HOME EXPRESSIONS (/link) today I found the most extravagant,

most stupendous,

most unusual teaparty I've ever seen!!!!

You just have to go visit to see her pictures and little captions.  It is precious beyond anything this old grandma will conjure up.  I sure wish I'd get an invite to one like this.  I'd pack up all four of my granddaughters and head for wherever she lives and even supply the petit fors for dessert!  What a "wonderland"!!!

Stay tuned for more of my blogging adventures.  No telling where I'll end up.  If you have a favorite Feminine Blog which celebrates motherhood/daughters/grandmothers and all things lace and wonderful, please leave the link in the comment box below.  selahV

Home-Schooling On Top Of Wichita Mountains

 
One of our favorite places to go and explore is atop Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma.  It's gorgeous.  You can see for miles and miles.  The splendor of the lakes and land that dot the earth below, create a respite from all the rush and hurry of the world.  All my granddaughters love this place.  At the right the girls inspect a hole in one boulder.  We speculated on whether lightning strikes the giant rocks and makes little pockets in the boulders.  When it rains, it collects in the holes and makes wonderful drinking fountains for birds and insects on top of Mt. Scott.  Nature's birdbath?

I've posted other photos in various places throughout my blogs and written stories about our adventures.  We once found thousands of ladybugs collected in the crevice of two boulders.  They were just getting ready to take flight.  My granddaughters marveled at the humongous cluster of their favorite insects.  Hmmm...I don't know that I wrote about that, yet.  Sounds like a photo story I need to post soon, huh?

This was one of the field-trips I use to show the girls the glory of God and His creation.  They ask all kinds of questions and the time affords a relaxing atmosphere of fun and learning combined.  At times we run into school buses at the top of the mountain.  Unlike the teachers rushing about, trying to corral an errant child, I am able to take my time and let the children walk and climb and discover at leisure.  It's an added benefit of my daughter's homeschooling commitment.  When her boys were older, and in public school, I'd ride along on the bus and it was pure mayhem.  Rarely did I get to talk and share and hear their questions or point out the awe of moments like the tribe of ladybugs we girls found while picnicking one Spring day.

The top photo above is of Haylee and Kinsey with the verse that came to my mind at the time I snapped the photo.  Below is a latter capture when they turned around and graced me with expressions of joy.  What about you?  Do you have a great adventure where you taught a lesson amid the joy of exploration?  Please take time to comment.  Or maybe you'd like to submit a post of your own here.  I'd love to hear from you. 

 
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When You Leave Ladies Alone

They do what comes naturally.  They have a picnic and teaparty in the warm sun of Spring.  That was Thursday.

Come Saturday, the party is over, and Spring is missing in action.  Would you believe 70 degrees gave way to 31 in two short days?

This is the newly mowed grass that the girls had been sitting on just two days prior.  I snapped this photo just before the grass was completely covered in snow on the first day of Spring.

WHISPERS

"Grama, we won't have a swinging tree anymore," Haylee said when she saw the ice-ladened tree sprawled all over the front lawn and listened to her daddy buzz-saw it in pieces.

"No, sweetie.  We won't."  An hour passed till she whispered again:

"Grama, we won't have a climbing tree anymore."  She climbed up in my lap.

"No, sweetie.  We won't."

"Abby and Brooklyn are going to be sad."  She laid her head against me.

"Yes, they are."

"But, they'll remember, huh, Grama?"

"Yes, honey.  They'll remember.  And so will we."  She snuggled deeper into my arms and whispered. "I'm gonna miss that tree, Grama."  selahV

PLAY TIME!

I'm off to play with these two little darlings.  The mall playground, Chinese broccoli and rice, and of course, a browse through Claires.

Won't this be lov-ver-ley?