Writer’s Workshop: Be Over for Tea
I seldom have people coming over for a tea/coffee date at my place.It does take a lot of effort to get the house into a presentable state with the kids repeatedly making a mess on a daily basis.
On the rare occasion that we have guest the kids are thrilled to bits. They would have friends over to play with them and they would be hold up in their bedroom playing with their train sets or taking turns to lay the multi-player games that we have for the PS3 or Wii.
We do have a lot of building blocks and two gigantic doll houses for the girls to play with. Tiger girl loves playing with them with other girls who come to our house.
The adults would be chatting away in the room while feasting on my freshly baked cookies and cakes. I have a wide assortment of English and Chinese teas to go with the bakes. There would be jellies and other treats for the kids too for tea.
It would be a very relaxing afternoon for all and lots of fun overall.
November 29, 2012 @ 1:19 pm
I used to cook nonya dry mee Siam plus fingerfood. But with 2 kids, I’ve given up n stuck with store-bought food n at the most make jelly n cut some fruits 🙂
November 29, 2012 @ 1:34 pm
Hi, i love having coffee too, but like you we seldom invite people to have coffee in the house. But in our tradition, every person who comes to the house is given coffee, in fact coffee is associated favorably to our province. ‘Barako’ coffee is a term for the coffee variety grown in our province. On some special occassion we serve traditional glutinous rice cake we call ‘suman’. This is glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves, cooked with coconut milk. This is also a delicacy.
This is my first time to join Two Questions, and I am a bit lost linking. thanks.
November 29, 2012 @ 2:03 pm
I always offer my guests tea. I don’t even own coffee! I don’t worry if my house is messy anymore. The moms I know all totally get it, lol! Now that our kids are teens, we just hang out and talk. It’s so fun! I should do that more.
November 29, 2012 @ 2:56 pm
I love hosting coffee dates (or tea)! But right now we are renting a house and we haven’t bought furnitures other than dining table and tv (one sofa bed) soo I don’t think that can handle hosting the dates hehe..
Certainly finger food would be great (chips, peanuts) and yes cookies!!
November 29, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
Coffee date at our house? Involves the kids, too, I’m sure! I cannot bake so I’d buy a cake for sure. That’s a wonderful idea to have a personal get-together with friends and chat the afternoon away since there’s no need to rush home to see the kids.
November 29, 2012 @ 5:39 pm
People don’t visit me at my house cos I can’t cook!! Haha
November 29, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
My constant fare would be mini pizza made of bread/pandesal, cheese sticks. 🙂 Then on some occasions, I’d prepare pancakes. 🙂
November 29, 2012 @ 8:01 pm
I would love to have friends over, but… *shakes head at the sight of my son’s toys all over the living room 😀
November 29, 2012 @ 9:42 pm
Lovely post for ‘B’ ~ I tend to keep it simple with foods ~ for me it is about ‘people getting together’ ~ so Tea and cookies ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
November 30, 2012 @ 12:15 am
My one year old will be all over.
Coffee will be served with either little sandwiches and some small bakery treats. I can’t do anything about the one year old but I can send the big ones to their room.
November 30, 2012 @ 1:21 am
At this point, it would probably be a study date with my fellow dental hygiene student classmates! Snacks would have to include some caffeine and chocolate to get us through studying for finals. Thanks for the fun question.
November 30, 2012 @ 1:29 am
Coffee at my house would be a little chaotic. There just isn’t any place for a group of friends to gather comfortably. This is why I want a larger place to call home. But, if I were to have a coffee/tea party at my house then I would serve cookies or coffee cake or something else sweet. Now, I want coffee!
November 30, 2012 @ 1:33 am
My coffee date would allow me to bake something….which I love to do….but don’t because goodies put on weight.
November 30, 2012 @ 2:48 am
Coffee dates are always fun. I would prepare a couple of different appetizers and then have cookies and pastries.
November 30, 2012 @ 4:06 am
We don’t have visitors over. Sometimes I wish I did. And I wish it would be normal people who I do not have to stress about cleaning up for.
If that happened, the kids would play inside our out and there’d be music and finger foods as the adults chat.
Keep it under 2hrs please 🙂
Happy Thursday.
November 30, 2012 @ 6:56 am
I would love to come over for some yummy baked goods and tea, and I think my six-year-old would like it at your house as well!
November 30, 2012 @ 9:57 am
Interesting question. Because our house isn’t big, we have limited seating capacity, and definitely limited space for entertaining. But coffee/tea here, as I imagine, would be a fun and very chatty one. I would serve cookies, and my famed tres leches cake, hehe. Maybe I will also try a new type of cake to bake, or have carrot cake as well. 🙂
November 30, 2012 @ 10:24 am
In the past I put on some teas, but always for adults. A tea in the UK with my friends is such a daily occasion like breakfast – it doesn’t have the air of specialness like it has in the US.
November 30, 2012 @ 11:35 am
Coffee/Tea served at my house would be on elegant dishes w/perfectly designed, delicious baked delicacies served alongside. This is fantasy right? 🙂 In real life, we’re pouring from the coffee pot at will and eating off of paper plates. 😉
I’m visiting today from the Thursday Favorite Things Hop. 🙂
November 30, 2012 @ 11:51 am
I would definitely have some munchies on hand for any gathering at our house, probably chocolate. Aside from that my husband and I always enjoy a good round of cards.
December 1, 2012 @ 1:07 pm
A coffee date? We have dinner dates. With children, it takes so much time to just have coffee. How long does a coffee date last anyways? I expect only 1/2 hour, and that is too little to go out of our ways to arrange schedule with kids.
I guess I don’t have the real answer for you. When I have coffee dates, it would be at Starbuck or somewhere that it could be quick. And usually some sort of cofee cake is good to go with the coffee.
December 2, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
I”m with you…hardly ever have my own friends over, although my the daycare kids are here everyday, it’s not what I call happy hour. 😉
December 3, 2012 @ 9:31 pm
tea fr me please. thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop.xo
December 6, 2012 @ 8:36 pm
My husband and I have both always home officed. We rarely entertain during the day. If someone were to stop by it would involve a lot of barking of a weiner dog, three phones ringing in the background and only barely controlle chaos.
BUT…
I would still find some cookies in the freezer and let you use my prettiest mug!
Thanks for a fun link to the letter “B”.
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