{"id":78,"date":"2008-10-27T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:55:55","slug":"by-any-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gazpachosoup.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"by any other"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to have a cup of tea in the mornings. It helps me to start my day off right. Daniel makes my cup of tea just how I like it. And part of how I like it is “made by Daniel”.<\/p>\n

A while ago it started that the girls wanted to help. So they were allowed to stir the tea after he’d made it. Then they wanted to do more, Abigail wanted to swish and dunk the tea bag around in the cup. So she started doing the “teabagging”. (Her word, not mine!) They then had to be told they could take turns each day for doing the tea bag and the stirring, because otherwise they were arguing over who should get to do it.<\/p>\n

Then our kettle was getting on a bit. It started to leak out the bottom. Since it sits on the base which is plugged into the electric, this is not so much a good thing. So I went to see about getting a new kettle and ended up with a Tefal Quick Cup<\/a>. It gives you hot water in 3 seconds without having to boil first, and it dispenses from a tap type thing instead of having to be poured like a conventional kettle.<\/p>\n

So then the idea was established that Stephanie would be able to make the tea by herself without need of Daniel’s assistance. Theoretically this should work fine. In practise, not so much. I don’t know what she does but it just doesn’t taste the same. One thing is that it’s way too weak. But the other is that it’s not made by Daniel. Both girls think they are doing something very important and get most upset if they’re not allowed to help with the tea, but I don’t really want them to. <\/p>\n

Part of what makes my cup of tea in the morning special is that Daniel made it for me because he loves me. That is why it makes my day start properly, because it’s been started with a simple gesture of love by my husband. They seem to think that it’s about the tea and that anyone can do it as well as anyone else. But it’s not just “a cup of tea”. One of the essential ingredients is Daniel’s love. (There is a movie I saw once with Sarah Michelle Gellar where she is a chef and her emotions go into her food, maybe it is a little bit like that.) That is something that neither girl can replicate no matter how hard they try.<\/p>\n

The problem is that I don’t think it would be possible to explain this without them becoming very upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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