Tea Leaves

Time has a funny/annoying way of changing the familiar when it comes to growing little humans.  On this, my third time around I have accepted it as fact.  And while I am still rendered a bit (okay, a LOT) sentimental about the whole process,  I have learned that while some truly loved routines fall away there are also some that stick. In terms of  how to predict which will survive the pressures of time, the only thing I can say is that it is never the thing I would expect to make such an impact. Doesn't that figure?

Case in point - the making of Sun Tea.  While all three of my girls have taken the title of Sun Tea Maker on, it is Hazel who has carried it into a second and third Summer season.  I provide nothing but the materials and she handles the rest (even the stinging nettle - thanks to her Forest School days).  So.  I indulge.  And I plant.

(Stinging Nettle)

(Lemon Balm)

(Camomile)

She harvests, washes and prepares all that will become the tea, then sets it all in the sun to steep.  For this, I am glad.

xo