You know those little rubber balls that you get for a quarter from toy machines? The kind that if you were to throw one in an enclosed space, they would bounce off of every surface rapidly and for a long time before slowing? Well in the morning, first thing, that’s how my children wake up.
This morning – with one eye, barely open, I heard my girls squealing and playing in the living room. I walked out, and opened the back door, and shooed them out. I walked to my coffee maker, poured the water in, and while I was preparing my coffee – I wondered how I could get my children to understand that if I dont get coffee in me, I am not very nice. I wondered how to get them to leave me alone so I didnt forget about my coffee while it got cold. Just as I thought that, I heard that bubbling end sound of the coffee brewing. Yes! I prepared my sugar and cream, I grabbed my favorite mug (it was clean!!!!) and I grasped the handle of the carafe as if it were the baby Jesus. As I pulled it out – I saw it – a GIANT DEAD COCKROACH ON THE TOP OF THE CARAFE. These are 3″ long in Florida. At Least.
{Insert squealing, jumping, OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG shit shit shit shit!!!!!!!!!!! uhhhhhhhhhhh}
By this time my 7 yr old was up, wrapped in his blanket on the couch. He was looking at me like I was on acid. And I probably looked it.
I finally collected myself enough to get a LONG wide spoon to scoop the cockroach on to flush him.
I washed the carafe and had a “little coffee time do over”
So that was my morning. How was yours?
Dude. Coffee.
But the cockroach? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Dude. It was the expensive Dunkin Donuts kind too. Like $8 a lb. Well, at least it wasn’t $5 for a grande like at Starbucks.
And it is a mini so it was only like 3 cups down the drain. Ever seen a roach in Florida? They are like bigger than the cat.
You don’t even want to know my cockroach story. *shudder*
you wouldn’t be a Florida girl if you didn’t have a story Grace!!!! hahaha