Hot tea…

So, I haven’t had a proper hot cup of tea in 7 months. ‘The tea jinx’, shall we call it? I don’t know what it is, but each time I make myself a hot cup of tea (or better still get someone else to make me one), something baby-related comes up. And much of the time not the heartwarming kind either. Its usually a giant poo incident, or a spit up, or a massive cry over something or at best some general purpose whinging. Its like she watches out to see the steam rising off the top of a cup and then sets in motion whatever diabolical plan she’s been plotting all morning in her pretty little head (albeit with dreadful hair, but that’s another story).

The first time I noticed this was when she was a few weeks old. I mentioned the odd timing to my mum and we laughed it off saying she was itty-bitty and just needed a lot of attention, so anytime was probably going to be a bad time. Little did we know that the tiny saboteur had already started :D! Since then ‘the tea jinx’ has been going strong, to the point that I have developed a slightly less than gourmet taste for microwaved tea, because I cant bring myself to throw away every un-drunk cup.

Now why is this such a big deal you ask? Because tea is all I have left *sniff*! No other vices anymore really… I barely drink because I can’t bear the pounding headaches the next day that I seem to get from even a couple of glasses of wine. (Yes, yes I know you know I’ve done a few allnighters – of the good kind – but with those I was prepared to pay the price and did. It isn’t something I do a lot though.) And that to me is huuuuuge. Also, from my preggy days, I’ve lost the taste buds that process coffee. That’s ginormously huge! So here we are with tea.

I try everything to get around it, because lets be honest, its become a bit of a funny game now (you see what us stay at home mums do to keep ourselves entertained). I make my tea when there’s no earthly chance of an interruption; like when she’s just fallen asleep, or when my husband or nanny are keeping her entertained. But nope, it’ll still be something. You see much as I love my tea, I love my baby girl more *blush* (yes I’ve said something deeply sentimental, lets move on ;)) .

This week should be especially interesting. Now that she’s just had her shots, I prepare for a weekend of no sleep and cold tea. You see, when you’re as tired as we are when she gets the vaccine crankies, there’s nowhere to go but up… even cold tea helps ;). So that’s what I’ll be drinking by the litre. But enough about me, lets talk about you. What’s your plan this weekend? I hope you’re doing something fun for us!