Virtual Coffee {4} (and waffles)

Hello friends! I’m linking up a little later than usual for coffee today because I actually went out for coffee at a friend’s this morning (as in out of my house, for coffee, with other adults, no children to speak of, astounding!). So, if we were really meeting up for coffee today I’d be having tea, cause too much caffeine makes me jittery, although, and this is a little weird, I can have as much soda as I want and I sleep like a baby at night. Soda actually has more caffeine than coffee, doesn’t it? Anyway, the excuse for my first coffee meeting this morning was my friend had to inaugurate her new waffle iron. Let me tell you, buying a waffle iron in Italy is no small feat, up until just a few years ago no one even knew what a waffle was, so buying a waffle iron is definitely something to celebrate. (any excuse, right?)

I would tell you that spring is finally in full bloom here, though the wise old townspeople say not to put our winter coats away yet, as we should be hit with another cold front soon. I don’t know, these old mountain folk usually know their weather but I’m having a really hard time refraining from dusting off my flip-flops. I’d tell you that the boy is in full gardening swing at this point and is having a grand old time digging up our entire yard (our gardener hasn’t come in to plant anything yet, probably waiting for the cold front to come and go, so the boy is in seventh heaven with nobody yelling at him to watch the flowers). Still, it kind of looks like we have a family of groundhogs living in our yard and you have to be careful not to break an ankle stepping in a hole, but he’s happy so I’m not complaining (too much).

We finally seem to have made our way out of the black hole of death which was last week’s full family bronchitis-fest, though I still sound like a transvestite when I talk. I was hoping to sound sexy with my gravelly voice but apparently it’s just creepy.

I would tell you we took the kids for a bike ride on Sunday (the girl’s first), I was a little worried cause I hadn’t been on my bike for two years, but I soon realized what a huge difference it makes not to be riding a bike whilst enormously pregnant, I barely huffed and puffed at all, barely.

The Girl and I, we had just started out, so she was still a bit worried.

The Boy and the Husband. I have no clue how the husband manages to take pictures while riding his bike and not falling straight into the ditch. Men absolutely can't multitask unless there's some sort of physical activity going on.

While I’m on the subject, I should probably go huff and puff away those waffles now, cause apparently they are not approved by the zone diet, but honestly can you blame me for cheating just this once?

And of course, as we are finishing our cups, I would nonchalantly mention that I lost three pounds this week, so I’m thrilled. Now all I have to do is keep them off, whilst I lose the rest… hmmm… now that I think about it that waffle isn’t looking so great anymore… so note to self stop cheating on the diet!


Now go say hi to our hostess Amy, apparently she's got butterscotch cookies!