This is who I saw when I arrived at A Tea Affair on Monday, February 17 – our daughters, daughters-in-law, granddaughters and Mary Ellen a friend from Maine.

Well, it was not exactly like that, as the above one was a posed one after we all settled in.

It looked more like this – with tall flowers on the table.

Because we had trouble seeing each other, we moved the flowers to the window seats behind us.

I understand that this tea was organized by our daughters-in-law, Chris…

…and Kristen.

Kristen is the one who made the clues I received during the days previous to the tea.

Assisted slightly by our daughters Diane and Deb.

Thank you!

It was a wonderful, delightful time.

Mary Ellen offered to take a picture that included me and each of “my” girls.

I included a few fun photos that Deb and I took during the tea.

Deb took most of these close ups.

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The next grouping of pictures is of our eight granddaughters – in birth order.

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Elizabeth

Hannah

Abigail

Jenna

Lydia (with her friend Mary Ellen)

Diana

Jana

Gloria

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Though our tea came with dessert, the house added a special birthday treat for everyone because of Abby’s and my birthdays.

The day was actually Abby’s birthday. You may remember (or not) that mine was actually a week earlier. 🙂

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I love delicious, petite desserts.

So ends my 70th Birthday Marathon. (You must be giving a sigh of relief.)

Now it is time to get back to a more normal life. Well, it wasn’t quite normal for the next day and a half because our Maine family was here until Wednesday morning.