Daddy needs Coffee

I'm generally in charge of getting Anja to daycare in the morning. If Susi has the time she will help me get Anja dressed and fed but after that I need to get her into the car and to "Lisa's House." The purveyor of our day care should really rename the business "Lisa's House." That way I could just write the checks to the business instead of finding new and creative ways of messing up "Swenson," her last name, every week. It's all my fault. I went to high school with a guy named "Swanson" and college with a good friend who was "Swensen." On any given week, the check may be made out to one of those various misspellings.

En route to Lisa's House is the site of my morning Mecca - Caribou Coffee. While we were traveling in Germany, it became habitual for me to get up with Anja, load up the stroller and head down the street to get a coffee and a croissant. This way Susi could sleep in and Anja and I would be occupied. Since returning home, Anja has been a big fan of going to the "Coffee House" with Daddy in the morning.

Yesterday, a Monday which required coffee, Anja was chatting up everyone working behind the counter. After getting my decaf-skim-dark-chocolate Mocha, a nice woman in line said, "You've got A LOT to carry."

To which I simply replied, "Yeah but it's worth it."

It's really true.

This is an entirely unrelated picture. Anja and I were playing blocks a few weeks ago when she was home sick. No more than five minutes later we had rubble.



From the rubble we erected the Elmo Memorial. It was constructed to honor the Little People that were killed or injured in the destruction during the attack of Mecha-Anja.