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Joe woes By Suzanne BroughtonPublished: June, 2010

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I feel sorry for my coffee cup. I do. My husband says he can tell how my day fared by the state of my morning cup o‘ joe. Here, I’ll give you a detailed play-by-play of a day in the life of mom’s favorite coffee cup: 6:30 a.m. > Pull coffee cup from un-run dishwasher and hastily rinse 6:32 > Abandon cup in sink while I make two breakfasts and pack two lunches 6:40 > Optimistically pour coffee to brim and slowly bring to eagerly perched lips 6:42 > Desert coffee cup on kitchen counter due to skirmish that breaks out between kids over remote control   6:57 > Find cup again, place it in the microwave for warm-up 7:00 > Sheesh! 7:00 already?! Run upstairs to get kids ready for school. No cup in hand 7:20 > Scuttle downstairs to retrieve cup from microwave … Drat! Cold again. Re-zap 7:50 > Pour re-zapped coffee into thermos cup to take in car 7:59 > Hurry out the door as not to be late for drop-off. Forget coffee on counter 8:15 > Return home to find cold coffee sitting on counter. Pour back into microwaveable cup. Re-zap 8:30 > Go upstairs to take shower; make myself presentable. Forget the cup in microwave – again 9:00 > Retrieve sorry cup of coffee from microwave. Check temp. Re-zap for third – or is it fourth? – time. Scoop off mysterious gooey circular film now covering coffee’s surface.  Um, ewww 9:05 > Finally, I take the first long-awaited sip of the morning while retuning e-mail. Yeah! 9:10 > Remember that clothes in dryer will relentlessly wrinkle if not folded immediately. Run downstairs to laundry room 10:00 > Grab cup while rushing to put away clothes, but abandon it atop son's nightstand 11:00 > Official lunchtime: Coffee out. Diet Coke in 8:30 p.m. > Putting son to bed, he complains of stomachache. "Do you think you are going to throw up?” I ask. He nods a weak “Yes.” Grab closest receptacle … You guessed it: hapless coffee cup on nightstand 1:30 a.m. > After barf-fest, with every towel, blanket and comforter in the house in the process of being washed, go downstairs to do thorough Silkwood-type decontamination rinse out of coffee cup 1:40 a.m. > Optimistically place coffee cup next to French press for the next morning Better luck tomorrow, true and faithful friend.   Suzanne Broughton is OC Family’s lead mom blogger. Read her blog HERE.

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