SeaHeart

We're both so excited--two of our dearest friends, Bill and Rene, are coming over to our home tomorrow for a high tea. <3

Bill and Rene are so special and important to us. It was Bill who--it now seems so long ago!--showed us the church as the place we could have our wedding (that ended up being the church that became our home <3 <3 <3), we outed ourselves to him--he outed himself to us, and then magic was born, and the deepest connection was shared, and we've all said, countless times, we've known each other in other lives and other places and other dreams. <3 There's no other explanation for how close we are in such a remarkably short time when you think about the breadth of lives. They are so insightful, we can talk to them for eleventy billion hours about gay issues (they've been together now...twenty something years, I can't remember the exact number. They've gone through so much of the gay rights battle, and they've been such a support system for us here), we got antiquing together (and we all even love the same eras!). I'm telling you, gay couple soulmates. ;D <3 We love them dearly and are so grateful for their presence in our time here on this planet. <33333

Anyway, I shall try to STOP WITH THE MUSH, and tell you about the TEA. ;D <3 We had to make an emergency run, because we THOUGHT we had a secret dash of sugar cubes, but ALASS AND ALACK, we did NOT, and you can NOT have an English high tea without sugar cubes. So we dashed to our local tea shop, the English Rose, and got the sugar cubes, so now we're entirely set for tomorrow. I was joking with Jenn on the way back: emergency sugar cube run? Yeah, that's not even first world problems. That's Sparkle World Problems. ;D

Our menu for tomorrow is AS FOLLOWS~ <3

Savories
- butternut squash soup
- cucumber finger sandwiches
- cashew butter and pear sandwiches on dainty pumpernickel bread
- brie and apple and honey sandwiches on light multigrain

Sweets
- homemade scones <3
- tea biscuits (oat and "rich tea" varieties)
- Jaffa Cakes
- dainty (tiny!) heart cookies dusted with powdered sugar
- strawberries and grapes

Teas
- Cherie Anne's Bumblefruit
apple, rose hips, orange, cornflower, rose petals & blackberry leaves
- Tazo's Vanilla Rooibos
rooibos, Tahitian vanilla, cinnamon, apples & peaches

SO! EXCITED! <333333