Strong Coffee

During the next few weeks, I will have the opportunity to share meals with many different family members. I look forward to that. My family has a great knack for teasing each other, to the point that it becomes ridiculous and a bit painful (the good kind of pain).

Every year, we like to tease "Grammie" that she makes extremely strong coffee. My Dad affectionately refers to her brew as "mud." The funny thing is that as time moves on, I have come to crave strong coffee. In essence, I'm becoming my grandmother.

I used to dilute my coffee with a gallon of half & half and 36 packets of sugar. Now, I like my coffee to have more of a punch. And to that punch, I add one and a half teaspoons of sugar and a quick spill of cream.

I know where this is leading. I'm two-steps from morphing into a coffee snob. Soon my metamorphosis will be complete.