Yearbook me

It is very sad what I waste my time on. I did a bunch of Yearbook You pictures just now because I'm tired and don't want to work. Later tonight I will berate myself for not having done my work, if I don't get going. So I guess I will. After I post the pictures.

The tea party was lovely, of course. Except for my doing a major crash and burn on Friend Priscilla's front porch when a doormat went out from under me. Not much beyond my knee and my dignity were damaged. I hate being a klutz. The Tea Ladies liked their scrapbooks, what I had finished. I went ahead and gave them to them anyway. I don't know why. I guess I wanted a sense of getting something off the list and that seemed like a good deadline to use.

Now I have to do my August paperwork. We have to send reports back to Ethiopia every August until the twins turn 18, complete with pictures, health reports, etc. So I need to get those done before the agency sends me a dirty letter about not getting them in on time. And I have to do my usual homeschool prep paperwork for the district, not to mention the general homeschool prep. But first, weird yearbook photos of me.

Oh, and I did take a picture of that emerald pendant that Friend Husband gave me for our anniversary but it's on Rachel's camera, which is not in the house at this time.

As I said, it was a busy week...

We spent the week doing some spring cleaning and preparing for the play (Friday night) and Sarah's Sweet Sixteen party (Saturday afternoon). The time just flew. So here are a few more photos from the tea party and then the next time I get to post (which we all suspect will not be tomorrow), I'll post play & party pics, Lord willing.
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Here are some sepia studies I took of my friends. I really like the way they turned out...sort of like old photos from a book or something.

Sherri


Sharon


Cindy. She probably hates this photo but I like the way she's looking at the camera with the imperious look. She is so rarely like that around us...but I'll wager that the teens at her place of employment (a high school) see that occasionally.



Priscilla and Sharon



Sharon and myself. This didn't look so old-timey but I just loved the handholding and sisterhood. Good times...



I am so unphotogenic.



Here was some of the yummy food. Friend Cherylyn said that she didn't think she could get filled up on tea food. She might be surprised! We all left comfortable, although not stuffed. It was a nice little feeling. And I loved the cucumber sandwiches...I was surprised!









I'm hoping they'll be able to come to my house in June. It's not a mansion, but we sure do have a good time together.

Here are a few random shots inside the house:

The pink room



The entryway. I wish I'd taken a photo of the staircase...it was amazing.


You can't tell from this photo, but the glass in this porch lamp was bubbled, which lead me to believe that it was mouth-blown and probably quite old.



This was the door into the house.



Pretty wrought iron gate & fence.



I do wish I'd had time to reread the book that this house is in so I could try to puzzle out what happened in which room. And I wish that we could have gone upstairs. Maybe we should have asked but as we were the last seating of the day, we figured it would not be a welcome question. I did stand at the corner of the property and got a glimpse of a scene from the book. And it made me quite happy.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

So, the homeschooling convention was, as I'd hoped, a blast. And a shot in the arm. I really needed that, especially this year. Maybe I'll get to the end of the year without threatening to send Rachel and Abby to public school.

I am so tired.

And this is not a good week to be tired, as the end of the week is the musical that we've been preparing for since September. I still have many many costumes to make and I have a nasty cold or sinus infection or something going on. I was totally out of it yesterday. But I did manage to see most of what I wanted to see at the convention AND go to tea with Friend Priscilla and the girls. The girls being the middle-aged women I take tea with in our congregation.

The first two photos which follow are of stuff that was near where we parked on Friday. I think the first one is Music Hall and the second was a couple of steeples to what, I don't know. I just like steeples.

The third photo is of the vendor area at the convention. I am proud to announce that I only purchased one book, which Sarah needed for school. We did have the opportunity to look at an algebra book, which was nice. I wish we could have found the other one for comparison purposes, but since she's been studying math out of the other series for a while, we pretty much know how it goes.








Here are a few photos of our tea experience. We went to Edith Mae's Tea Room in the Eden Hall Mansion. Eden Hall was used as the model for Sally Cochran Rausch's house in ...And Ladies of the Club (my favoritest novel ever) so it was beyond cool to go inside and see it. And to stand on the corner outside it and ponder some scenes from the book. The tea experience was nice too, except for the lack of serving utensils. Fortunately, we're all friendly!

Eden Hall Mansion (there's a ballroom on the 3rd floor!)



Our charming hostess, Friend Priscilla.



My place setting, before I switched plates with Friend Sherri, because she didn't particularly like hers.



Here was the plate that Friend Sherri liked a lot less well than I did:



And here is the group, in the yellow dining room adjacent to where we had our tea.



I can't wait for the next tea party! I think I'm going to try to have everyone in June to my house. I actually have a few ideas, for once!

More pictures tomorrow, Lord and health willing. And costumes and party prep for Sarah's party on Saturday. As I said, it's a busy week.

Be well!