Good Morning!

I like mornings. I’m definitely a “morning person.” If I am going to get something accomplished, then I’d better get it done in the morning. By the afternoon I have fizzled and my “get up and go” has went. My workday mornings are pretty routine: Dan gets up and goes to “work out” around 5:30 a.m. Sometimes I hear him…most times I snooze on. He gets back & wakes me up at 6:30 a.m. Stumble into the kitchen and make coffee (hopefully on the walk from bedroom to the kitchen I will have become fully awake…otherwise we usually have some sort of catastrophe on our hands—coffee made without coffee filter, coffee pot never turned on…). Brush teeth, put on makeup. At 7 a.m. the “Today Show” comes on. That is my “alarm” and I’d better be blow drying my hair at that point. By 7:30 a.m. I am “out the door” and ready to start my workday. Every work day that’s my morning. Seriously. Every work day. Like, since always. Ahhhhhh, then there is the “week-end me.” The morning dawdler. A friend of mine, Jeana, introduced me to the phrase, “of a mornin’,” as in:

Of a mornin’ I like to have a large cup o’ coffee with vanilla cream.

I love that phrase. It gives off a conjecture of lazy Saturday mornings—doing what you want. So I think of my Saturday mornings as “of a mornins’.” I can piddle around and discover that it is 10 o’clock and I am still not dressed and ready for the day. Oh, but I have enjoyed my morning! I love a special blend of coffee that is sold at the Red Buffalo in Sedan, Kansas. That’s my “week-end brew.” Now don’t turn your nose up—it is chocolate orange flavor. I know, I know…it sounds so odd. But it is soooo good. And the aroma! I will start the coffee, maybe water the plants. Drink some coffee. Fill the bird feeder. Watch some HGTV. Drink some coffee. Make the bed. Drink some coffee. Do my nails. Drink some coffee. Mess up my nails. Drink some coffee. See what I mean? If you haven’t dawdled away a morning…come on over, I’ll show you how it’s done. The coffee’s ready!