Although breast milk is referred to as liquid gold, if you're a latté-loving mama, you know what liquid gold's real alias is: coffee. For some, coffee is a tasty treat that can be leisurely sipped from a glass mug in a bathrobe (ha!). For a mom, consuming coffee is like your own version of The Hunger Games, and if you can get three cold sips of it in before your kids successfully drive you crazy, you are the winning tribute.
It's safe to say that being addicted to coffee as a parent comes with its own separate set of struggles — read through for 11 of them.
Coffee makes you feel appreciated and ready to take on the world.
Before it gets left in there for the rest of the day to be found the next morning when the cycle repeats itself.
And it happens at least once a day.
It's impossible to talk fundraisers and bake sales without your morning joe.
Who the hell do you think I am? I'll take the hard stuff, thanks.
And then once that wears off, you can't figure out how to explain expectations versus reality with them when it comes to the effects of caffeine on playtime.
You didn't know how great you had it back then.
There just isn't a cup large enough to hold the amount of caffeine you need.
Beat it, kids. Mama needs her coffee time.
You had tons of things planned for this child-free time, but coffee trumps all.
You literally relate with them on zero levels; they can't be human.