Teachingmommy: Tea and Weddings and Fun Times

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Tea and Weddings and Fun Times

I love weddings. I love how happy people are during that time, I love the pagentry, I love the ritual and I love the parties! Most of my friends are already married so my wedding days are quickly drawing to a close. I get to be part of Katey and Jeff's wedding in September and I'm super excited about that and then that's about it! Pretty soon everyone will start having babies and then I get to lead the Baby Shower train... :-)

Today I helped host a tea party shower for my friend Kelly who's getting married in July in Oregon. It was really nice! We had an amazing spread of food (see pictures below and drool...) and everyone had a very nice time. Kevin got to stay with baby and they played and destroyed the house pretty well.

I wish weddings didn't happen just once...I wish we could all have them every few years! Or at least big parties (that somehow a genie comes and pays for it all!) where we get to get all dressed up and carry flowers and dance all night.

Weddings are just so much fun...I should be a wedding planner: I'd make more money :-)

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.