<p>Well-stocked with tea, cocoa, tasty treats, and healthy snacks, too. Place your orders.</p>
<p>I am bringing very strong dark roast with chicory and non-healthy snacks. I have some pumpkin bread left over from the weekend. While I want to just sit and visit, I’ll have to keep jumping up to supervise some workers on site (mountain dew in the frig for them) and get lunch ready for a friend coming over midday. I just made the second pot of coffee. We will be opening a bottle of wine for lunch. Because I don’t do anything, I can drink in the middle of the day.</p>
<p>Jasmine tea for me.</p>
<p>^very calm and zen… just like I’m picturing you : )</p>
<p>I think I would have really liked doing Destination Imagination if they’d had that when I was a kid. <takes bite="" of="" alh’s="" leftover="" pumpkin="" bread=""></takes></p>
<p>Please don’t let me near that pumpkin bread - it’s my favorite and I won’t be able to stop. I should save it as a reward for getting through the week. I’ll take a large hazelnut coffee with whole milk and envy the people who are having pumpkin bread.</p>
<p>A coffee with double cream and double sugar. It’s how I have to start my week, then I taper off. No pumpkin bread for me, although I do love it. We are in month 4 of a big backyard project and I am so very tired of having workmen in my yard and house on a daily basis. Am headed out at lunch to meet an old friend who I haven’t seen in ages and looking forward not only to seeing her but to getting away from the noise and confusion for a few hours! Hope everyone has a nice day.</p>
<p>Deborah, since you are offering, can you do a chai latte for me? Sprinkled cinnamon on top?? And a little whole milk yogurt with homemade crunchy granola on top would be wonderful! You’re the BEST hostess!!! </p>
<p>You bet. Since this is the virtual world I have magically gotten really good in the kitchen. :)</p>
<p>P.S. Thanks for the very kind compliment, and I’m loving that early signs look like the coffee cart may be a success.</p>
<p>(shhh, I don’t bother to correct mistaken impressions such as that I am more zen-like than nervous mutt poodle dog…)</p>
<p>Destination Imagination looks pretty interesting, Deborah , are you involved, or someone you know? When I read about it, it sounded like Odyssey of the Mind, and then - lo and behold - kinda is. OM was very big where we lived when our kids were little. It was enjoyable.</p>
<p>Just like in real life, I’ll walk in and out of the room getting myself and everyone else refills, and interrupting a conversation which has long since moved on to another subject.</p>
<p>Early on when we started homeschooling I went to a homeschool conference which was four plus hours north of where we lived and met a bunch of the people I knew online. A teen Destination Imagination group showed us what they do, and it looked like so much fun! They were really into it. </p>
<p>Btw, I’m not here to promote homeschooling for all, in case anyone is wondering, but this is a commonality Alh and I have, and just like parents of kids in the same school end up chatting, so do homeschoolers.</p>
<p>I’m definitely not a homeschool evangelizer, and I’m so old I barely remember homeschooling anymore, though I do recall driving all over the state with a car full of boys, trying to stay awake by alternating my caffeine (thermos of coffee/ then diet coke) while one of the boys always nervously started asking: “Are you sure you know where you are going?” Sometimes he brought his own map. Okay- homeschooling lesson for that day! 
Because I am so old, I drove at one time without GPS.</p>
<p>Deborah: hope you don’t mind. I invited some zombie lovers over. Don’t know if they will show.</p>
<p>Always happy to say hello to fellow homeschoolers. I’d like cafe au lait, and do you have any freshly baked scones? Thanks so much, this is lovely.</p>
<p>Scones coming right up! Honored that you showed, CF. </p>
<p>In a virtual world, calorie counting is unnecessary.</p>
<p>Can I please have an Eggnog Latte? That darn Starbucks won’t have them 'til next week…
I’d also like a sniff of the pumpkin bread, but with the Holidays coming, I better save some calories…</p>
<p>I’m in, guys, but you all are way too late for me. I’m online here by 7:00 am, wondering where the heck everyone else is. I’ll bring the bagels but they might be stale by the time you all arrive.</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>Here you go, Gosmom. Btw, like Alh said, sometimes I’m not here to man the cart, so you can serve yourself if I’m not around and just leave the money in the jar (virtual jar, no one will touch it). </p>
<p>I have a bad habit of just making myself at home wherever I go. </p>