{"id":97,"date":"2012-09-13T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:15:32","slug":"wednesday-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Coffee break"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a committee meeting slash dinner last night (well, actually no meeting, all dinner.\u00a0 And drinks.) and sat at a table with mostly\u00a0stay at home moms who were very curious to hear how it’s going with me.\u00a0 They’ve all heard through the school grapevine that I’ve joined their ranks\u00a0(see blog Day 3 for an explanation of how the school grapevine works – http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=17<\/a>) and they wanted to know how I like it.<\/p>\n

Duh – Love it!<\/p>\n

And then, looking to fit in and show how I was\u00a0“one” with them, that we were\u00a0“simpatico,” that\u00a0they are my “peeps” (what’up, what’up home mom!)\u00a0\u00a0I regaled them with a story about how I had a mutual acquaintance over for homemade cake and cup of coffee that afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0To which they were all “wait, wait, wait.\u00a0 SHE brought cake?”<\/p>\n

Me: “No, I<\/em> made cake.”<\/p>\n

Them: “Huh?\u00a0 You made<\/em> cake? And served<\/em> it with\u00a0coffee<\/em> to a friend<\/em> at your house<\/em>?!”\u00a0 And they’re all looking from one to the other and shrugging their shoulders.\u00a0 Next, I expected they would try to poke each other in the eyes while saying nyuck nyuck nyuck like some stay at home mom version of the three stooges.<\/p>\n

Me: “Helloooo. I mean come on!\u00a0 Isn’t that\u00a0what we do<\/em>?!\u00a0 Isn’t this what you’ve all been doing since your first child went to school?\u00a0 Having each other over for cake and coffee and leaving the working moms out?” [I was a little more jokey sounding and less angry and desperate than it’s coming across here.\u00a0 I think.]<\/p>\n

…….<\/p>\n

Honestly, doesn’t anyone else remember their\u00a0mother having women friends over for cake and coffee in the afternoon?\u00a0\u00a0It’s what they did, right?\u00a0 My mom did it so\u00a0well that she even had little fancy containers (matching, white with bumps all over them like those old popcorn-y bedspreads) for the cream and sugar.\u00a0 But I thought I was modernizing the whole affair by not having any containers.\u00a0 My guest just helped herself to the sugar directly from\u00a0the sugar jar and milk out of the carton.<\/p>\n

[as a side note, coffee is WAY easier to make nowadays than I remember it was back then.\u00a0 It took like 20 hours and you had to assemble metal items and maybe even a spring or two then balance it all on some sort of\u00a0stick within the coffee pot.\u00a0 Then the coffee had to bubble up through this little glass spout at the top.\u00a0 I believe that was called “percolating” but it seemed really confusing and time-consuming and you had to prepare it long before\u00a0people even\u00a0walked in the door]<\/p>\n

And here we’ve come to the crux of the problem (no,\u00a0not that\u00a0coffee can now be made on-the-fly.\u00a0 Or that I don’t have fancy cream and sugar containers, ’cause I do.\u00a0 I just didn’t use them).\u00a0 Rather, maybe\u00a0I’m operating under some 1970’s version of what I should be doing??<\/p>\n

Good Lord!\u00a0 Where’s the pamphlet from the OB\/GYN’s office when you need it?!?\u00a0 It’s hard to get this right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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