All before my first cup of coffee

I woke up yesterday morning to the sound of Lily talking in her crib. I had stayed up way too late the night before trying to work on writing the code for the webpage I am making for my dad. I got something up and running at Spike's Pickleball Paddles but I am not done yet. Takes forever when you are a beginner at both writing the html code and designing a layout – too many options both on the writing of the code and where to put it all. Thanks for all your advice on the layout.

So I get Lily out of her crib, change her diaper and carry her downstairs. Usually I don’t carry Lily anywhere because she is a very independent little toddler. However, Monday Lily jumping around hurt her big toe. We took her to the doctor on Tuesday as it was swollen and she was hobbling around the house. She got her first x-ray and the doctor told us that little kid bones are not fully developed and it is hard to tell if there is or is not damage. He do know for sure that the toe was not broken and that there was some internal swelling. He advised us to keep her off it as much as possible and to come back if she isn’t better in a week. I have been trying to find ways to keep Lily off her feet. Lily is a very mobile child, very active and this inactivity and being carried around is not fun for her at all.

By the time we get downstairs and I set Lily on the couch, she is very irate. She begins her tirade and screams about every little thing. Have I ever mentioned to you that the sound of Lily’s voice of dissent is louder than the jets that fly over my house? I feel bad for her and I try my horse whisperer technique to stop the screeching. This wasn’t working very well.

I left her on the couch with her screeching as my attempts to help were not met with any success, I moved on and hoped she would too. Next, I cleaned up the cat poo that our dog had dug out of the cat box and spread around the house. Our dog enjoys eating cat poo. Jeff had cleaned the cat box before we retired, and the dog sleeps in Mandy’s room with the door closed. Still the animals thwarted us and I had to clean cat poo before my coffee. I don’t much like to do anything before my coffee especially when I am very tired.

As I was vacuuming and Lily was screaming Jeff came downstairs and did his horse whisperer technique with Lily. His always works, mine is very sketchy. So Lily got all good and sweet, I finished the animal excrement removal of the morning, washed my hands and prepared to get Lily her breakfast. I opened the refrigerator door and the bar that hold all the stuff in the door fell off. Down came all the glass bottles of various items. Including but not limited to a 1 liter bottle of fish sauce. I don’t know if you have fish sauce in your kitchen, but the smell of a liter of fish sauce is enough to kill the average mom before her first cup of coffee. I think that fish sauce is made of fermented fish broth. It is tasty in small portions, mixed with some curry and some coconut milk. Mmmm. We do not have access to soy sauce that doesn’t contain, wheat or corn so I use a lot of fish sauce which is naturally without wheat or corn. Most Thai food is without those items of which our Lily is allergic, so I buy a lot of stuff from the Thai section of our store.

It took me a ½ an hour to finish cleaning the fish sauce, broken glass, get the smell out of the house and repair the refrigerator. I then got Lily her breakfast of banana slices slathered in all natural peanut butter. Lily is happily eating her banana slices, covering her hands and face with peanut butter – it sucks not having that bread buffer. I begin to make the coffee. Just then Mandy enters the kitchen, imagine the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, Mandy is always in a hurry and running late in the morning. So she says in her exasperated I cannot believe you have the nerve to be in my way tone, EXCUSE ME! And I am ushered out of her way, she then SLOWLY goes about making her breakfast right in my way. I screamed at her about not being the only person on earth or something not very nice and she muttered under her breath about how she said excuse me. So Mandy left for school with a chip on her shoulder, great. I finally got to make the coffee, while it percolated I washed Lily’s hands and mouth. She was still hungry so I got her some cold rice, some cold beans, some cheese and some grapes. All her favorite breakfast foods and some milk. Finally I poured my coffee and added my beloved cream and sugar.

I had more first sip of Boca Java’s - Blogs of Bravery. It is a combination of dark and medium beans. I loved it. Best cup of coffee of my life. I heartily recommend you stop by their website and buy as much coffee as you can.