Mom Struggles of Being Addicted to Coffee
11 Struggles of Being a Mom Addicted to Coffee
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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.
1 You can't handle anything your kids throw at you until you've had a sip of caffeine.
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2 Even if you get as far as pouring your coffee, you can't get excited because you'll have to heat it in the microwave 30 times.
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3 The decision of whether to unpack your kids from the car just for the sake of a coffee run is the truest internal dilemma ever.
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4 If you haven't had a sip of caffeine before school drop-off, you are forced to deal with the PTA moms stone-cold coffee-sober.
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5 When someone offers you decaf, you have to stifle the urge to answer obnoxiously.
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6 When you happen to get through an entire cup of coffee, you inadvertently reveal to your kids an energetic version of yourself.
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7 You wish you could go back and tell yourself to enjoy coffee more in your prebaby years.
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8 No matter how much coffee you actually get to drink, you feel like it'll never truly cut into your exhaustion.
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9 You have to deal with the whining that comes with telling your children to leave you alone until you're caffeinated.
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10 If a mom at play date drop-off asks you if you want to stay for coffee, you have to accept even if you can't wait for freedom.
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11 You can't relate to moms who don't drink coffee in any way at all, despite obvious similarities.
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