Yummy! New Coffeemaker!

Before I forget, and having been reminded by Valerie just saying “movie,” it’s so cool watching (or hearing, as the case may be) the kids learn to talk.

Sadie parrots about everything she hears.  She also busts out with some impressive and uncannily grammatical sentences.

Yesterday the coffeemaker died.  More accurately, the pot stuck to the burner hard enough that when I grabbed the handle to pick it up, the glass broke near the handle.  So it’s that the pot broke.  The coffeemaker was $9 at Wal-Mart in 1999, replacing an identical one bought for the office when we first opened it.  The original died after three months, but I still have the spare pot.  Somewhere.  Which makes the coffeemaker that belongs to the old business not dead, exactly, but we replaced it anyway.  If I had any intention of actually using the office in the future (I haven’t been there in two weeks; what I’ve needed to do - not counting cleaning up and out the place, filing, etc. - has mostly been possible by remote or delayable), it would be a fine time to return the old coffeemaker there.

Deb was going out anyway, so she went to Wal-Mart for a new one.  It’s pretty nice, for $17.  It has the all-important sneak a cup feature, which kind of works okay and beats not having it at all.  It isn’t programmable, because anything fancier than the basic on/off models are equipped with automatic shutoffs after two hours.  If they’re going to have those, they should be an option you can turn off.  We brew a pot in the morning and, while I usually have two or three cups in the first hour or so up, we sometimes don’t drink our last until well into the afternoon.  Not that the old machine kept it very hot, but mud or not, I want to be able to let it sit, waiting for me.  But I digress.

She walked in, Sadie saw the box and exclaimed “new coffeemaker!” She kept exclaiming that regularly for the rest of the day, but right after the initial burst, she also said “coffeepot,” and seemed to be delighting in the discovery of compound word formations.

Meanwhile, Valerie continues to surprise us.  The other day I asked her ‘Valerie, was it good?”

She replied “yummy!” It was as if she’d always been using that word.

You’d also swear she’d grown overnight, each morning when she gets up.  Cooler, though, is in just the past couple days she’s visibly matured.  Things like holding still better for changes, asking for changes, that kind of thing.

Okay, off I go…

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