March 14, 2011 5:09 p.m.

On Saturday, the ladies of our church celebrated Spring with its annual tea.  Although I am not a collector of tea time finery (and could not hostess a table, unless styrofoam cups would have been alright, and I suspect not), Sweet Girl and I were able to attend as guests and meet and get to know more women in our church.  It was Sweet Girl’s first ladies’ tea (not including the tea party we had here at our house when she turned 5).

This tea is a tradition for our church, and began back in the day when the senior pastor’s wife used to host it in her home.  The church is now much too big to allow a ladies’ tea to be held in her home, so it is in the fellowship hall.  And unfortunately, our senior pastor was hospitalized over the weekend, so his wife was not in attendance at this tea, either. (but as best we know, he was to be released from the hospital this morning).

Anyway, this was some tea!  An event that is best explained with photos.

Here we are just before leaving home.

This is the table to which we were assigned.  One of the prettiest, I think.

There were 17 tables in all, but I am showing just a few here.

Lovely in blue.  I enjoy all these other ladies’ talents.

And their vision and creativity.

Each table is as unique as its hostess.

I love these colors here.  So Springy!

Love this even more.  The Youth Group boys (middle school through high school) take on the duty of being waiters.  Our waiter was a 13 year old boy named Holdane.  So polite!  I loved seeing them rise to the occasion and act as gentlemen.   I really think the experience is good for them. (and Chips will probably be doing this next year).

These cakes were given away as door prizes.  Our table hostess won the big teapot one in the middle.

Is it dessert time yet, Mommy?

Who could wait very long to try out all these truffles?  Lemon ones, red velvet ones, chocolate mint ones, and chocolate covered strawberries that were hand-picked from the farm the day before.

Another gentleman providing the music.

All the ladies had a wonderful time.

So did Sweet Girl and I.  She was proud to pose for this photo after much happy nibbling of hors d’oeuvres and truffles.  It was a wonderful first tea!