tea for two

Today, I was invited to a Mother's Day Tea at Truett's preschool. We are coming down to the end of the school year and the kids in the older classes have spring programs. Trying to get a bunch of two and three-year olds to sing songs and stand on stage seems a little daunting so they do the tea time instead.
We met in a little lobby area right outside of the classroom. Tru ran out to me and asked me to sit next to him. Then the teachers served us cookies and iced tea. Each child had decorated two cookies, one for them and one for their parent. It was a generic sugar cookie, the kind with giant sugar granules on top that someone decided should be dyed yellow. And to that the kids added white frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
I am a fan of sweets. You will always find a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips in my house and I believe there is a special place in my stomach just for ice cream. But this cookie was over the top. I took my first bite and wanted to gag. It was like dumping a sugar packet into my mouth and finishing it off with a hefty drizzle of honey. Blech! But my baby made that cookie for me so I was determined to eat the entire thing and smile while doing it. So I took bite after bite of my sugared-up sugar cookie that seemed to never get any smaller. And I smiled, and talked to Tru about his day, and read a book to him, and stole a pretzel off his plate because oh my gosh I needed something salty to cut all of that sweet. And I finished that awful cookie and had a fabulous time hanging out with my baby boy.  


photo by leuwam  http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotbikes/3724077212/