Mmm, COFFEE!

The other day, my daughter (who just turned 4 last week) picked up a glass china mug, pretended to drink from it, then shouted, “Mmm, COFFEE!”
I blinked at her in disbelief. You’ll recall that neither of us drinks coffee, so we don’t have it in the house, therefore I don’t know where she familiarized herself with it enough to pretend that she’s drinking it. Maybe at my church?
In any case, it’s a sign. She’s going to be Protestant.

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Mmm, COFFEE! — 23 Comments

  1. You never know. I happen to really like iced tea, not that I drink it. So long as she is healthy and happy I know that we’ll all be proud of her.
  5. Perry ~ Well, I’m an evangelical, Paul’s Mormon, and next month I’ll have a Catholic step-mother. I suppose having an Orthodox daughter would complete the ecumenical circle.
    Maybe an Orthodox sister would work. Jenny, wanna convert?
    (BTW, Jen, I just saw your Father’s Day card to Dad on your Tumblr site and I ♥ it. I side-blogged it.)
  6. My daughter did a similar thing when she was 4. I suspect it was from friends at school.
  7. When I was in nursery, my mother said that my favorite thing to shout was “Cappuccino!” Neither of my parents _ever_ drink that, so she’s not quite sure where I heard it….Ah well, it provided my mother no small amount of parental angst, but in the end, I turned out alright. :)
  8. She will definitely be protestant. If she were destined to be Mormon, she would have said “Mmmm, Diet Coke!”
  9. So, if Harley says, “Mommy, I want to be with you forever” that means she’ll definitely be Mormon right?
  10. E,
    Protestants aren’t the only ones who drink coffee.
    Psychomiker,
    Lots of non-lds traditions believe in an eternal existence after death, just not before conception.
  11. I don’t know how much the Orthodox drink coffee. I do know that for Protestants, it pretty much grows off the end of your arm.
    PC, one time I bought Harley an adorable little two-piece swimsuit that left about two inches of her stomach exposed. When I put it on her, she did not understand that it was supposed to leave her stomach exposed, so she began crying and trying to tug it down to cover her stomach.
    That’s the best indication I’ve ever had that she could be Mormon someday.
  14. In a way, it’s not fair.
    Protestants don’t usually start church until 11:00am. Half of our wards start at 9:00 am.
    Protestants are at church for less than 2 hours, or about an hour if they don’t go to Sunday School. We go for THREE full hours.
    If anyone needs coffee at church, it’s the Mormons who have 9:00am sacrament meeting.
    On Sundays, I used to keep a cooler with a couple cans of Diet Coke in the car in the church parking lot. I’d go out between meetings and gulp down a can real quick to get my caffeine fix.
    Then I got smart.
    I bought caffeine tablets (generic NO-DOZE), a pill box, and a pill cutter. 1/4 tablet of caffeine = one can of Coke (more or less).
    And a side benefit is that it’s much cheaper for a 1/4 tablet dose than a can of soda.
  15. @Bookslinger
    Let’s not forget that the Lutherans don’t just provide coffee after church, they also provide a dazzling array of pastries.
  16. Let’s not forget that the Lutherans don’t just provide coffee after church, they also provide a dazzling array of pastries.
    Sold.
  18. Molly: Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to check and see if there are any Lutheran churches on the route between me and the ward building.
    For those of us in wards with 1:00pm (or later) starting times on Sunday, we have the option of stopping by those other churches to sample their post-service goodies on the way to our sacrament meeting.
    And for those who get out of their LDS meetings at Noon, that also gives a window for “church food shopping” on the way home.
    I’ve actually done that at the local Hindu temple (where they charge for the meal) and at a couple Korean churches. I made a monetary donation to the Korean church so as not to feel like a mooch. They said I didn’t have to, but they accepted the envelope.
    On a serious note, if you respectfully visit other churches, someone from their church may just return the favor and visit your ward.
  19. Mrs. Jack,
    Given that when the Orthodox hear of “topless women” they think of women without a head covering, I wouldn’t be so sure about the swimsuit stuff being decisive. ;)
    Bookslinger,
    Morning prayer (Orthros) for the Orthodox begins at about830am. Divine Liturgy starts at about 930am and goes till about 11:30 to noon. And then of course, on Saturday evening there is vespers and confession.
  20. Made me laugh. Kind of like a nine-month old kid who gets into warm beer (which, to my uncle’s surprise, resulted in the kid spitting all the beer out).
    See you read Schlok Mercenary. I get back home, I need to link to your blog.
  22. I know I’m late with a further idea here, but;
    At one place I worked, they did lots of training. The 2 break rooms there had 6 coffee burners each. So, people would leave about a half an inch of coffee on a heated burner, causing that burned coffee smell. I got fed up with that situations, and started taking all these almost empty urns of coffee & combine them all into one pot, and rinse out the other urns & turn off the burners.
    Little did I realize that old coffee is not good tasting, even if it’s hot. I gathered later on that I made a few coffee drinkers gag from doing that.
    This would be a good plot for a “Back on Earth” installment, if it ever starts back up. Yes, the Mormon guy trying to save money & be nice ruins the coffee, without any malice.
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