Tea With My Mother

I really can't have tea with my mother.

This week marks 

32 years since she passed away.

Very young and very suddenly.

Saturday, September 1

would have also been her 

78th birthday.

Not a day goes by that I don't think of her.

(my older and younger brother and me with mom)

She had such a great sense of humor!

My girlfriends always wanted to come

to our house because she made them laugh.

 

Mom was a traditional mom.

She never worked outside the home. 

And she never learned to drive.

She was tiny, 4 foot 11 and a half.

She always stressed the half LOL.

She loved TV!

 Especially soap operas.

To her, the actors were her friends.

She'd refer to them by their first name.

I remember her dressing up for 

Luke & Laura's wedding and telling her

friends that she would be unavailable as

she had a wedding to go to LOL!

Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore,

she loved them all and never missed

watching them.

I wish she had shared with me her

fried chicken recipe.

32 years have passed and I can still taste it.

32 years I have been trying, and failing,

to duplicate it.

She did, however, teach me how to 

 shuffle dance to "Tea For Two".

 She had not been sick at all

and, in fact had babysat

my six month old son,

the only grandchild she knew,

the day she passed.

She & my dad were on their way from
Denver to her birthplace, Iowa, for her birthday.

They stopped at a rest stop to,

well rest, along the way.

She went to sleep and never woke up.

To celebrate her birthday,

I set up a little table

so that she & I can have 

a birthday tea party together. 

Just us girls.

♥Tea For Two♥

I brought in a small round table

from the sunroom.

I covered it with a plain white tablecloth

and then layered on a scarf from my thrift shopping.

The tea cups and saucers are from Ross.

The teapot and matching

sugar and creamer

were purchased at Home Goods

with a birthday gift card

from my dear mother-in-law.

The rose pitcher was a gift long ago,

filled with flowers, from Mr. B.

The pink roses are from Michael's.

I like to think mom

saw me putting this little table together

and thought it special enough

to get dressed up and tell her

friends that she was unavailable.

She had a tea party at her daughter's to attend.

 Happy Birthday Mom!

I love you and I miss you♥

I always share my tablescapes with 

Kathleen at Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen 

Susan at Between Naps On The Porch Tablescape Thursday

and 

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life Table Top Tuesday

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AND
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for my link party.