Molly's Blog

I never liked coffee. Or tea. It seems you have to like one or the other if you are an adult and that is for one important reason: caffeine. After I had my daughter, I was in danger of falling asleep while standing up. I think I was scared off coffee because

1. The smell was horrendous, like burnt toast
2. And my mother drank coffee as often as she did breath

I didn’t want to get addicted to the caffeine because adults who NEED coffee in the morning really freaked me out. I was at a Bach part one weekend and it felt like the Hunger Games in the kitchen: everyone desperately clawing through the drawers trying to find at least one loose coffee bean to survive.

Luckily, creamer exists because otherwise I would have never started drinking it. I drink a cup a day so far to get my morning work done before my daughter wakes up for the day. I still hate the smell and the taste is still meh but it is getting better. I wonder if we all have a timer over our heads that count down until the day we need to start drinking that bean water to survive