Tea Time

In the afternoons I have been making time for tea.  I sit down at my little kitchen table and enjoy the quiet of the day with a warm cup of tea and a little cookie or two.  There is something very calming about doing this...just simply sitting, sipping and stirring in a litte teaspoon full of sugar, and nibbling on a cookie or a piece of chocolate.  I think it might just be the fact that you have to stop all the hustle and bustle of your day...up and down the basement stairs to take care of laundry, standing at the sink doing dishes, bent over the bathroom sink cleaning out toothpaste stains, hunched over mopping floors...and on and on it goes.  Having a cup of warm tea makes you just stop, breathe, think, day dream....just be still.  It has become a really cherised time of day for me....anywhere between 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon now, I make time for tea.