coffee is the new tea

Today's topic on Best of 2009 Blog Challenge is tea. I used to be a tea drinker. I hadn't really had coffee at all in almost six years, having kicked the habit the first time I was pregnant.

Then we moved to Brazil.

As you probably know, they have good coffee here. That's really an excuse, though, because nowadays they have good coffee everywhere.

I think the real reason I started drinking coffee again is because I have three kids. And a job. (A job where they have thermoses of coffee in the teachers' lounge every morning.) And I'm tired.

It's one thing if you're staying home and don't have to change out of your pajamas. Then maybe tea is strong enough.

Now, I'm not saying that being a stay at home mom is easy. No sir.

But to gather up all the little pieces of myself and turn them into something presentable by 7:30 in the morning--well, that takes something a little stronger than tea.