It's tea time!

Hi,
Sorry it's been a while since I updated.  Time just goes by so quickly.  Not a lot has happened but there are a couple things I wanted to share.  I attended my first tea party a few days ago.  A couple women at church decided to get together and plan the event.  I hadn't been to the person's house where it was held so it was nice to see where she lives.  There was about 30 of us that came which was a great turnout for the size of her home. 

It just so happened the event was being held on a Monday evening, which is the same evening we have our diet group at church.  So all of us in the diet group decided we would come up to the church and weigh in then ride over together to the tea party.  When we arrived we were told to choose a colored disk and put it in our pocket.  They had red, green and blue.  Of course, since green is my favorite color that is the one I chose.  Once everyone arrived they told us to go to the room that corresponds with the color disk we chose.  The green room was in the basement so that was where I headed.  They had a organ set up and one of our members at church was playing music.  There was desserts (2 different cheese cakes) in this room along with several selections of tea.  They also served the tea in real china.  Pretty nice, huh!  We drank our tea and ate until a bell rang and then we switched rooms.  This time I went to the kitchen which was the blue room.  In this room there was more tea, scones and blueberry cookies.  Here we took a ball of yarn and one person started a story and had to continue telling the story until they ran out of their color of yarn, (each color was about 5 feet long) then they passed the yarn to the next person who had to continue the story.  Very entertaining and funny!!

After we finished there we went to the red room.  In this room they had cookies and more tea.  The host in this room read poetry to us that a couple members of our church had written and we chatted.  Then all 3 groups met together in the basement and we picked a person and said why we appreciate that person and we had a drawing for door prizes.  I won some Bath & Body lotion.  After that we all went home.  This was my first tea party and it was so much fun.  I got to mingle with people that I see at church for a few minutes each service but I really didn't know well.  It was really a fun time.

I just finished studying the book of Esther with my next door neighbors.  I've read the book of Esther several times but we did a indepth study with Beth Moore who has a DVD series out on the book.  There is a lot more to that book then I ever imagined.  What courage Esther had in such a difficult time.  She was amazing!  We are starting a new series on the men in the book of Genesis around the first of March.  I'm looking forward to learning more about these great people.

That's about all that is going on up here in Marion, OH.  Take care and have a nice day.