“Do
you need to stop at NJ’s for anything?” David asked as we were returning home
along Lake Leelanau on Monday after wrapping up the last of our tax work (a day
early!) in Traverse City.
“Yes!
I need a gallon of milk.”
“What
do you use so much milk for?”
Well,
I haven’t
been using it since Mardi Gras, because I chose to forego coffee and wine for
Lent and my favorite breakfast drink at home is café au lait made with Shetler’s
whole milk – and I must say that doing without coffee was much harder than
abstaining from wine, though this year I did not make the mistake of adding
chocolate and potato chips to the list of absentions. But okay, I made it, and
the lovely hand-warmer mug a friend gave me for my birthday was just perfect
for renewing my café au lait tradition on a chilly April morning.
If
I were actually in Paris, there would have been a fresh, warm, crispy croissant
to go with the café au lait. Such a chilly Michigan morning, though! Perfect
for a steaming bowl of hot corn grits topped with butter and local maple syrup. More than a fashionable Parisian woman would have to start the day, but it works for me.
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