And the Caffeinated Ripples Spread ...

Tea: Pu Erh Poe with Mango and honey

Music: Robert Fripp, "Silent Night"

Time: Almost midnight.

Strange day today, hot drinkwise.

My youngest shares my -- let's say "fondness" -- for caffeine. Today, on Free Coffee Monday at Morning Glory Espresso, she went for decaf.

(A friend says it doesn't matter, that this particular daughter is self-caffeinating. She could be right.)

Then, tonight, my son -- ordinarily a fan of neither tea nor coffee -- decided he'd have first some chai, then the second steeping of my flavored Pu Erh Poe.

And he liked both.

I already have one child hoarding a stash while raiding mine. Soon, it seems, I could have another.

Oh, well. I can still take both of them at Scrabble. Maybe we'll start playing for bags of tea.