You caffeine seekers are just weird. I'm surprised you're dominant.

I'm going to have a glass of juice now.

Okay, no, I'm going to have tea. But green tea. And only because my stupid apartment is cold. Under the sleep doctor's orders. But I haven't worked out how to balance that with living yet.

ita, then, the job you have is to listen, which is probably the hardest.

yes, listening and being the container for everyone else's anxiety is hard.

I want to go to stretch class today, but I am a bit worried that I'm coming down with something. My head throbs and I'm feeling queasy, and Cody was sick yesterday. 'Fraid I may not make it to class today.

As for kids in sports, I think we are signing up Isaac for 5 pitch at one of the local parks. I don't think it's LL, think it's just the park's rec center, but his friends are in it. We'll see. Think we won't do soccer for him next year as he spends too much of his time disengaged on the field, whereas Franny may not be great at it, but she's a team player and she likes it.

I don't want to know what I would be like with no caffeine. Probably permanently comatose.

As for kids in sports, I think we are signing up Isaac for 5 pitch at one of the local parks.

Sara's going to play indoor soccer for the next six weeks. And speaking of under-caffeination, the other morning I asked the mom who suggested it if she needed cleats. ::headdesk::

I call it the Caffeine Conundrum, which is what happens when you're stumbling around dropping your coffee beans and spilling the water because it's hard to make coffee before you've had coffee.

I have brewed an entire pot of coffee only to discover that I forgot to put the grounds in the filter. It made me very sad.

I'm hoping the caffeine staves off my headache right now. If not, I'll need to take something and then stretch class is probably off the table.

Mmm, caffiene.

I've done that, Sue.

So, for those following along at home, Darby came home last night. I put down a bowl of chow and she ate it all up, cool as you please. Same chow - it came in from the car with her. The look of outrage on my sister's face was quite something to behold.

The look of outrage on my sister's face was quite something to behold.

Hee.

My favorite appliance is the coffee maker with a timer. I wake up to freshly made coffee every weekday. If the apartment was on fire I would grab my purse, my cat, and my coffee maker.

but on a minute to minute basis is SO much easier than a 5 year old with entitlement issues.

Ooof, I hear ya sister. We were watching some videos of Matilda when she was 3 and unbelievably sweet and adorable in her Meerkat costume the other day and I'm afraid JZ, Emmett and I would have all traded the whiny/fussy/complainy current edition in for a day of play with 3 y.o. Matilda. (But just for a day - we'll let her grow through this and become a bundle of fun again.)

I have one of those coffeemakers that grinds the beans -- this causes a 5 min. process of cleaning the thing out each night, because everything gets gunky. But that makes me clean the thing and put in beans and water early the evening before (usually while cooking). Because I do that, Bob cleans the litter box each night.