Tuesday Teatime

Tuesday's are always a favorite day for Josh and I. This is the day we have our tea time. It is also the day that we cover our poet, artist and composer studies. Today was designated as a Beatrix Potter Tea per a request from Josh.

As I have said in an earlier post, I have been reading the book The Tale of Holly How by Susan Wittig Albert to Josh. These are light mysteries in which Beatrix Potter is the main character of the story. Since I began reading it, Josh has been craving scones and so today we made chocolate chip scones for our tea time using a recipe from a book I got from our library titled, Beatrix Potter's Country Cooking by Sara Paston-Williams, as a basis while improvising a few things. We decorated the table with some cut out illustrations from a box of Beatrix Potter chocolates I bought at Target a few weeks ago in the dollar section. We also enjoyed a few of the chocolates along with our scones and Earl Grey tea. :) We put a few of the books we have been reading about Beatrix Potter on the table. These included: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman by Judy Taylor and At Home with Beatrix Potter by Susan Denyer. Of course we had to read a few chapters from The Tale of Holly How too.

It was an usually rainy, grey, chilly day here in Las Vegas earlier in the day and just perfect for tea and Beatrix Potter.