I bought some of those coffee bags (like tea bags, but with coffee), because I figured I could heat water in the fireplace, if nothing else.

I have two French presses and make sure I keep ground coffee, even though I normally grind it myself, just to be sure I can have coffee.

Toddlets!

I go the French press route, myself, but many is the morning where I get called away to deal with some toddler emergency (or more likely, a toddler-induced emergency) and leave it to steep too long.

Mal's been very good about the tree, mostly just pointing to ornaments and signing about them, but I have noticed that the bottom 1/3 of the tree isn't really the way it was to begin with. He's mostly into putting things ON the tree, which doesn't always work out.

We struck out on getting him a Greekish ornament this year, so we got him a house charm. These are things that are given away at the new year, and normally have an abalone shell and an evil eye and some other stuff. It will make a cool ornament, I think.

Cash's kids = adorable.

I managed to not get a speeding ticket this morning, though I passed two speed traps, one at about seven miles over.

Christmas friggin' miracle.

eta: eleventy-slumbernut

TCG uses a french press. He usually grinds the beans for the coffee, but we keep ground coffee in the freezer too, just in case. I drink tea, and I have so much tea in this apartment that I could probably not buy any for a year and still not have to worry about having enough.

Works for me. Btw, thanks for being a good sport, ND, given that I pretty much ended up arranging an event at your house.

Hey!! I live here too! And I'm not so sure about this "early afternoon" party at my house. If people are coming, ND and I need to CLEAN said house first. Since we aren't getting in until the night before and I plan to SLEEP IN, we need a little time in the early afternoon for that.

Silly boys.

I like tea too, and have a few nice flavors (and more coming! for my Christmas present to me!), but I have to have coffee first.

Which is now cold, what with the abusing the children and chasing the dog thing I've been doing.

It's not a bad day, honestly. Though Aidan jumped on my head, he did it with those adorable giggles that makes it hard to be mad at him.

He *likes* being negative and critical and snarky, though. It's his happy place, they know him there.

Totally using this. "I like being indifferent and noncommital! It's my happy place, they know me there!"

Yes. This is good.

Something in the dining room is rattling. It's making me go INSANE!

Hey, today my leg is so m uch better - I can walk on flat surfaces almost normally. I mean, my knee isn't bothering me, but my calf is still a bit tight.

And, I have, I hope, solved my problem with the US Mail. (I left a note on my door to leave the package there - just in case but I also phoned the toll-free number to have them deliver it on Friday -- when I have the day off.)

I have new hair! And, as far as anyone who hasn't seen me in the last year, or even since July, a new body!

Tell me all about it. I'm on a need to know basis.

Oofta, Matilda was not only up between 1:45 and 3:45 last night, but she was screaming at the top of her lungs for the duration. We tag team bouncy walked her until she was tractable and calmed down enough to breast feed.

It was unpleasant.

And now this morning she has the temerity be super cute and smiley at us.

Yeah, yeah, missy, wait until you're a teenager and I wake you up with shocking blasts of light flickerings at 7am during your summer break. You'll get yours.