Welcome to Tea and friendship Tuesday's hosted by Charli and Me. This is a fun post that can be filled with recipes, teapots, teacups. tablescapes, stories, poems, and interesting facts related to tea, friendship, or both. It's a post to share anything you would like with a friend! If you would like to join me, just pick up a button, write your post, and then leave a comment here so my friends and I can pop over for a visit. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy this post.......
Recently I found out some interesting facts about friendship......
Did you know that when women feel close to a friend their hormone levels of Progesterone increase, which in turn helps to alleviate stress and boost their mood. In addition improved physical health appears to be related to social contact and communication with others.
"Hormones and Behavior'
-Los Angeles Times and Ann Arbor News-
In another study, having a close friend, even more than having a close family tie, increases longevity in women. Women who have many friendships live 22% longer than those women with fewer friends. Women build friendships through memories, life experiences, children, jobs, and neighborhoods. Friendships decrease the likely hood or prolong disease processes like high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Having a friend can increase your survival rate by 85%. The study also found that friends can sometimes be more understanding of current health issues than family members because while friends acknowledge each other's ailments they don't tend to swell on them. Having a friend is therapeutic because friends laugh together and laughing is good for every one's health.
-The Wall Street Journal-
Based on all of the above we have yet another reason to celebrate our wonderful bloggy friendships. Let's laugh and cherish one another! I consider each and everyone of you truly a blessing ♥
Speaking of friendships, I was visiting my friend Madeline, at http://madelinesalbum.blogspot.com/ last week and she had posted a poem that I remember jumping rope to as a young girl. How many of you can remember jumping rope with your girlfriends? It was the in the days before colored TV, cell phones, tex messages, and all of the video games young girls have available to them today. We didn't have fancy jump ropes like the ones that are pictured here. We often used a piece of old rope from a clothesline. I'm glad I grew up in the age of jump roping, Kick The Can, Hop Scotch, Hide-and-seek, Baseball, and bike riding......Does anyone remember these?....
'Call for the doctor, call for the nurse,
And call for the lady with the alligator purse!
In came the doctor, in came the nurse,
And in came the lady with the alligator purse!
Out went the doctor, out went the nurse,
Out went the lady with the alligator purse!'......
'Cinderella dressed in yella
Went downstairs to kiss her fella
She made a mistake
And kissed a snake.
How many doctors will it take?'.......
'Sally had a baby and she named it Tiny Tim
She put it in the bathtub to see if it could swim.
He swam to the right,
And he swam to the left'......
One last note...... LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!!.......I hope all of you have a beautiful day!....
I'm so glad I found all of you. You light up my life ♥
Thank you for all of the lovely comments on my posts, for all of the smiles you have given me, and especially for being your warm, delightful, and charming selves......
With warmest regards, Carol