The morning tea ritual ...

Its quite amazing to see how our habits have altered after the move and its interesting to figure out the reasons behind it.

We've started making masala tea (tea with milk + ginger + cardomon) every morning and sitting around the breakfast table eating and chatting. We used to do this in SF also, but without the tea and probably a bit shorter.

Not sure why and how the tea part came in, but its now become something of a ritual. I suspect its primarily because we are still in the process of making friends here and this seems like a good way to begin the day as a unit :)

Mari's theory is because the kids are on summer break, we need to plan and figure out what we'll do each day with the kids. We are not in a rush/hurry to go anywhere and hence the lingering around the breakfast table. Having a good cuppa tea ensures a smoother start to the day etc. In SF we had a pretty good schedule and would get the kids out of the house relatively early ...