Dear Santa, JAVA or energy please!

Posted on Dec 22 in parenting, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

You know the day is going to be a struggle when your husband whispers to you “the coffee maker is broken” on his way out the door, just two days before Christmas.

After a night of frequent wakings for boobie time this mom is not chipper in the morning. Especially when her toddler, who has been up 3 hours already, wakes her to confess “Mama, I ate something bad. Poop!”.

Without coffee I am in a mess of knocking baby’s head against the side of the pack n play, falling down the stairs with baby in arms and putting milk in the kitchen cabinet. It isn’t pretty folks.

So when our three year old Black & Decker coffeemaker bit the dust this morning it was hard. Luckily for me several things were working in my favor:

1. Adalyn, while waking often, was actually just cooing and talking to wake me. This is a welcome change from the crying she and most babies do to alert parents of feeding time. Thank goodness for gentle, sweet wakings.
2. Nathan was courteous and alert enough to think of how he could save my morning. He remembered we have a small french press that can be used to make coffee.
3. He set up the french press, filled it with coffee, filled a cup with water and then left me a note about how to work the french press (complete with step by step instructions) so I could have an easy cup of coffee to start the day.

Everyone survived the morning our coffee maker died, luckily!

Now, to buy a new one or just adapt routine so we can only use the french press? Having one less electricity sucking appliance on the counter top would sure be nice. I bet the french press would save us many wasted cups of coffee too.