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TEA PARTY

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHNNIE LIKES TEA PARTIES AND SHE HAS BEEN HAVING THEM FOR HALF A CENTURY.  WHEN OUR DAUGHTERS WERE LITTLE SHE BOUGHT A CHILD'S CHINA TEA SET AND STARTED HAVING TEA PARTIES WITH THEM.  SHE USED THE TEA PARTIES TO TEACH THEM ETIQUETTE AND MANNERS. 

 

AS TIME WENT BY SOME OF SUSAN'S AND ANGELA'S FRIENDS WERE INVITED TO THESE TEA PARTIES.  THEN JOHNNIE BECAME A TEACHER FOR THESE FRIENDS ALSO.  BEFORE LONG THE MOTHERS OF THESE FRIENDS WERE CALLING JOHNNIE AND ASKING HER WHAT SHE WAS DOING TO THEIR LITTLE GIRLS.

 

THEY ALL SAID THAT THEIR LITTLE GIRLS HAD STARTED SHOWING BETTER MANNERS THEN THEY EVER HAD BEFORE.  SO JOHNNIE STARTED INVITING THE MOTHERS TO HER TEA PARTIES.  IT WAS SURPRISING HOW MUCH SOME OF THE MOTHERS LEARNED ABOUT ETIQUETTE AND MANNERS FROM THESE TEA PARTIES.  I GUESS THEIR MOTHERS HAD NEVER HAD TEA PARTIES WITH THEM WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE GIRLS.

 

WHEN OUR DAUGHTERS GOT OLDER THE CHILD'S CHINA TEA SET WAS PACKED AWAY AND THE GIRLS WERE BUSY WITH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SO THEIR TEA PARTIES STOPPED.  BUT NOT THE GROWN-UPS TEA PARTIES.  JOHNNIE STILL HAD HER TEA PARTIES WITH HER EVER WIDENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

 

BEFORE WE KNEW IT OUR DAUGHTERS WERE GROWN YOUNG LADIES AND MARRIED.  THEN ALONG CAME GRAND CHILDREN IN THE FORM OF TWO GRAND DAUGHTERS.  OUT CAME THE CHILD'S CHINA TEA SET AND THE TEA PARTIES STARTED ALL OVER.  GRANNY, (JOHNNIE) WAS AT IT AGAIN.  TEA PARTIES, ETIQUETTE AND MANNERS FOR A NEW GENERATION.

 

WE WERE IN A NEW HOUSE IN A NEW NEIGHBOR HOOD BY THEN, WITH NEW NEIGHBORS WHO HAD KIDS.  THE TEA PARTIES CONTINUED TO GROW.  THE BOYS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WERE NOT INTERESTED IN TEA PARTIES SO JOHNNIE STARTED A LENDING LIBRARY OF BOOKS FOR THEM.  WE WOULD SIT OUT ON THE FRONT PORCH WITH A BOX FULL OF CHILD'S BOOKS THAT WE HAD BOUGHT IN GARAGE SALES AND THE KIDS WOULD COME AND CHECK OUT A BOOK AND TAKE IT HOME WITH THEM.

 

THIS WENT ON FOR A WHILE AND JOHNNIE NOTICED THAT THE MEXICAN BOYS THAT LIVED ACROSS THE STREET NEVER CHECKED OUT ANY BOOKS.  SHE ASKED THE OLDEST ONE WHY HE DIDN'T CHECK OUT A BOOK AND HE TOLD HER HE COULDN'T READ ENGLISH.  JOHNNIE ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW AND HE TOLD HER HE WOULD.

 

SO JOHNNIE STARTED TUTORING THE MEXICAN BOYS IN READING.  NOW SHE HAD TEA PARTIES, A LENDING LIBRARY AND TUTORING CLASSES.  BY THEN OUR FRONT YARD HAD BECOME THE GATHERING PLACE FOR ALL THE KIDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

 

DURING THE FALL THE BOYS WOULD PLAY FOOTBALL AND THE GIRLS WOULD CHEER THEM ON.  JOHNNIE TAUGHT THE GIRLS HOW TO BE CHEER=LEADERS AND DO LITTLE DANCE STEPS WHILE THEY WERE CHEERING.  THEN SHE WOULD LINE UP THE LOSING TEAM AND MARCH UP AND DOWN THE LINE AND GIVE THEM A PEP TALK.  SHE WOULD CALL THEM THE COWGIRLS AND TELL THEM IF THEY WANTED TO BE COWBOYS THEY WOULD HAVE TO TRY HARDER.

 

TIME MARCHES ON AND NOW THERE IS A GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER AND SHE IS HAVING TEA PARTIES WITH JOHNNIE.  SHE IS ALSO PLAYING "T" BALL WITH A TEAM FROM HER SCHOOL.  I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT 70 YEAR OLD JOHNNIE GET OUT IN THE YARD AND PLAY "T" BALL WITH THAT GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER.  BUT THERE IS A NEW GENERATION OF NEIGHBOR HOOD KIDS ALSO.  MAYBE THEY WILL BE THE ONES TO PLAY "T" BALL WITH CHIVONA AND JOHNNIE WILL ONLY HAVE TO COACH.  I CAN SEE JOHNNIE TELLING ONE OF THE KIDS TO HIT THE BALL AND THEN RUN AROUND THE BASES.  SHE WILL BE RUNNING ALONG RIGHT BESIDE THE KID, SAYING COME ON THIS WAY.  NOW STEP ON THIS BASE, AND THIS BASE, AND THIS BASE AND BACK TO HOME PLATE FOR A HOME RUN.

 

WELL THERE IS ONE THING ABOUT OUR HOME, IT IS NEVER A DULL PLACE.  THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON.  WHEN JOHNNIE TAKES ONE OF HER TRIPS FOR A WEEK OR TWO, EVERY KID I SEE ASKS ME WHEN IS JOHNNIE COMING HOME.  THE MEXICAN BOYS THAT JOHNNIE TUTORED NOW MOW HER YARD AND WONT TAKE PAY FOR IT.

 

JOHNNIE IS NOW WRITING A BOOK AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT, BUT IT WILL BE A HUMDINGER I'M SURE.

THIS MORNING AS SHE WAS READING THE PAPER SHE ASKED ME IF I KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED?  I SAID,

 

"NO TELL ME." 

 

SHE SAID … BUT NO, THAT IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

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LOREN

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