Don't touch my coffee!

I am desperately trying to be a morning person. Getting up in the morning to yoga, a nice breakfast, some quality time with my huney and kitties, actually having accomplished "stuff" before 11 is a Huge goal of mine. The reality is that I hit snooze about 5 times, stumble off to feed the kitties and get coffee going before climbing back into my nice, warm bed for a little more snoozing because there ain't No Way my back is touching a freezing cold yoga mat at -17 Celsius. (Yes, I know that is the temperature outside right now, but I swear my mat is channelling it in!) It would probably also be easier if I didn't stay up quite so late reading, but that's another issue all together. Needless to say, it takes me a little while to get going in the morning, and I like to take my time about it. Coffee helps.

My husband is even more ennamoured of coffee than I am. There are days when I think he would take it intravenously if he could, though having turned him on to Kicking Horse coffee (Kick Ass being our favourite) he has cut back a little, quality over quantity and all. I also truly enjoy my coffee, and giving up cream sucked. No bones about it, I will drink it black if I have to, but that doesn't mean I want to. Silk coffee creamer to the rescue!

I don't actually use much in the way of soy products. Hubby does not like tofu, and the more I learn about soy, the less inclined I am to use it extensively (personal choice there). But having something that I can use in place of cream, and I do use Silk for a lot of things besides my coffee (hello, chocolate ganache in half the time!), makes my life sooo nice.  They have flavoured ones too! Not a fan of nut flavoured things, so haven't tried the hazelnut, but the vanilla is sublime. You can't always find those though, and just went through about 10 days of withdrawl as it was on back order and everywhere I usually shop was out (gasp!) but Huzzah! Was able to pick some up yesterday. That makes for a vey happy me.

I'm still tempted to go back to bed though!