If you were to tea with me today you’d have to fight your way through the mess to get to the table…there are toys strewn everywhere and fabric from here to Timbuktu. I’d offer you a green tea, it’s pretty much all that’s in the house at the moment besides I need something soothing to calm my frazzled nerves. I couldn’t offer you more than a platter of fruit to nibble on as the kids have raided the baking tins and I’ve not had the desire to bake more.
While our mini me's busied themselves with the lego box and playdough I’d ask you to take a load off, make yourself at home and share how your week has been. Your company would be a great distraction and would momentarily shift my thoughts from my own concerns…like the fact that I have been feeling rather exhausted lately {though I am sure the drawn look on my face and the weariness in my eyes would give me away completely}…like the fact that I am so over Anthony working such long hours and that he is equally as exhausted, if not more so, than I…like the fact that in the last four months he has worked over 360 hours in unpaid overtime? A total of 9 weeks work! and then some on top of his usual week…like the fact that it’s majorly frustrating but I guess them’s the breaks when you are on a salary and the only one with the know-how trying to help establish a new warehouse…like the fact that I am worried about him burning himself out.
We’d chat about our plans for the first term and what we hope to achieve for ‘ourselves’ while juggling both motherhood and the running of a home. It will be nice to know that I am not the only one with dreams waiting to take flight. I’d share with you the news I received the other day of an exceptionally talented and beautiful singer/songwriter choosing to wear her ‘dearmolly’ frock in a clip/short film. I’d show you the photo I have seen and I think you would agree with me at just how AH.MAZE.ING she looks. We'd encourage each other, as friends do, to reach for the stars.
Conversation would flow easily from what we're currently reading to the plans we have for this weekend and before we know it the entire afternoon would have past. We'd set a time for another 'tea' date before you left and I'd feel much lighter of heart and thankful to have spent the afternoon in the company of a new friend.
Thanks so much for tea-ing with me I hope you join me again real soon
Tammi x
linking up with the beautiful Em
12 comments:
Let's try and have a real cuppa soon Tammi x
Ohh, I wish I could be sitting there with you having a cup of green tea:) another fellow exhausted person here. So tired I had a blood test yesterday, finally, to try to nut this all out once and for all. Nothing much worse than feeling constantly tired and not being able to let everything go. Feeling for you, Tammi and sending lots of hugs to you. xx
How exciting to have someone in a vid clip in your dress. Are we allowed to see it??? Please???? xx
So I'm dying to know WHO is it wearing your dress? I don't recall any videos of me singing being splashed across the screen of late!!
Sounds like Anthony is a busy man...hope he gets a well deserved break soon. Give him a cup of tea, and maybe add a dash of something extra in it for him!
Lovely to chat, thanks for the Tea Tammi, Shame our day had to end, see you next time... I might join in, (time permitting).
karen xo
I'm sipping my coffee while reading this Tammi (does that count?). But, yes, would be so nice to actually be sitting there in person :)
Poor Anthony, he must be exhausted. As the wife of a hard worker, I know how it takes it's toll on the rest of the household.
I'm so excited to see this film clip (any more hint??!). I'm hoping you are feeling better soon. I was just saying to Daniel yesterday what a difficult year it has been so far, with one drama after another. xo
A lovely chat.
Wish I was there for morning tea in person. I'd bring a plate- maybe anzac biscuits or banana cake.
x
Awww Tammi, if only we lived close by, I'd love to have afternoon tea with you. I think we would be a great support to each other at this point in our lives. It is so so hard when you have a hubby who works ridiculous hours, I have one of those... though the unpaid overtime would be particularly frustrating.
That is fantastic about your Dear Molly frock making it onto the big screen, so exciting.
I love how blogging allows us to connect with lots of like minded people out there. Hope you're having a lovely weekend Tammi xo
I would feel so at home with you right now and empathise completely with mess and lack of food (all eaten up which happens so quickly) and lack of husbands presence while he works seven days a week and nights........ Sigh!
So we'd have a lovely heart to heart and I'd bring chocolate to help with our tiredness too!
Id love to meet you in person and hear about your Kiwi background. And I wouldn't leave with out admiring and hopefully buying one of your stunning dresses.
I love your post, so honest and real AND inviting
xoxo
Sounds like a wonderful afternoon, but I would not dream of showing up empty handed! Perhaps a banana cake? And of course you would have to show me what you were working on. I love to see other peoples works in progress and their creative spaces. :)
Hope things settle down a bit for you very soon and that you and Anthony get to enjoy more down time and cups of tea together too. xx
Ooh I love that this blogging community gets to have a taste of what it's like to tea with you! And I feel amazingly blessed that I am one of the ones who gets to do it in person. TOMORROW! ;)
Looking forward to catching up, thank you for the encouragement to do this linky in the first place - people actually linked, would you believe?! Yay! xxx
I felt like I just had the most relaxing cuppa with you. I love that we could forget about our mess, our worries, and just chat.
So exciting about a Dear Molly dress becoming famous, and can commiserate on all our worries.
The sad thing about a cup of tea, is that it is over too soon. And (sigh), work is waiting. xx
i would love to have tea and chat with you! i am sorry you are so exhausted, but i am sure you would still be fabulous company! be kind to yourself xx
p.s so excited to hear that your dress will be famous!
gorgeous post tammi! love the honesty about the mess... sounds like my house!
x
tash
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