Iam a proud cool auntie with mostly nephews. My niece and I are close and have always enjoyed doing sophisticated “lady” things together. Every year since she was five years old, we’ve gone to The Grand America high tea for her birthday. We get dressed up, she borrows my fancy (costume) jewelry, and we have tea, or in her case, hot chocolate, and we have Afternoon Tea in the lobby lounge. Just the two of us.
We are approaching six years of our ladies who take tea tradition, and I will continue it as long as she is interested. It’s a chance for us to talk about everything from table manners to food preferences, and more recently, she’s been discussing her schoolwork, aerialist classes, and her friends.