Tea Time Tuesday-End of Summer Edition

Welcome to Tea Time Tuesday... End of Summer Edition!

Although there are still a few weeks before summer is officially over it truly feels like the end of summer to us... In a few days we will be starting the new school year, the weather has changed, and some of our trees have already lost their leaves. It has been a strange summer to say the least, but we are excited for all the fun things that fall brings.

Featured Poem

End of Summer by Stanley Kunitz

An agitation of the air,

A perturbation of the light

Admonished me the unloved year

Would turn on its hinge that night.

 

I stood in the disenchanted field

Amid the stubble and the stones,

Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me

The song of my marrow-bones.

 

Blue poured into summer blue,

A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,

The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew

That part of my life was over.

 

Already the iron door of the north

Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows

Order their populations forth,

And a cruel wind blows.

Featured Recipe

This week we are switching things up a bit- My children are going to take turns selecting and making the recipes for Tea Time Tuesdays. Miss Julia is up first and she chose M&M Cookies. To make your own M&M Cookies you will need:

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups M&M's

You can find the instructions here. It has been ages since we had these cookies. I forgot how yummy they are!Save

Thank you for joining us for another Tea Time Tuesday! Want to see more of our tea times? Check out the links below.

• Strawberry Jam Edition
• Wind Edition
• Brownie Edition

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