Coffee.
I'm know I'm like, 8,000 years late to this party and I'm probably not even invited anymore. But I think I am *finally* understanding why people (read: parents) drink it. It used to make me so jittery and miserable that every time I had the non-decaf variety, I would spend the afternoon in an unusually OCD state, fumbling around trying to arrange my post-it notes into some semblance of brilliance (if you look at the above post-it notes, which Leo ate and actually found delicious, you'll see that's a fool's errand).
But the past two days, I've drunk "real" coffee and felt strangely invigorated (and only slightly manic). I didn't long for an afternoon nap with the desperate fervor of a young child itching to play Angry Birds, and I even managed to make our first bonafide family dinner where we ALL ate together (note to self: you can't mash potatoes without some kind of potato masher. Rebecca's mashed potatoes = epic fail).
I've always loved the smell and taste of coffee and the way cradling a cup (or better yet, monogrammed artisanal and eco mug) of it makes you feel like a big fluffy muppet is holding your hand. Now I'm drinking the real stuff and look at me, I'm so hardcore.
Do you live for coffee? (Or does coffee allow you to live?!)
xox,
Rebecca
Based on our hours of consultation with google about what to do about our Keurig that wouldn't brew yesterday morning, and the fact that we resorted to following one website's instructions to "turn it upside down and spank it like a red-headed stepchild," I think it's a parental requirement in our house! (By the way, the merciless beating seemed to have made it worse at first, and I called Keurig who immediately offered to send me a replacement - in 3-7 business days - so Heather whacked it a few more times and it worked! Our children were so happy we could think about something else again!)
ReplyDeleteLOL. Love this, Gabrielle. I bought coffee beans for the probably the first time and plan to use the coffee maker that's in our temp apartment sometime soon to brew up some caffeine so I can have it even when I'm NOT at Starbucks :) Ethan doesn't drink coffee, so this is going to be a "new" thing in our house... and I think it's going to stick.
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