Enjoying the Little Things

Back in November we acquired this fancy coffee machine.

 

Isn't she a beauty? One problem though she was almost lifeless and on her way out the door... she was getting tired and not really working properly until Mr. Fix it (Hubby) came to the rescue. The frother had stopped working properly a while back and other issues were starting to pop up.   It belonged to Oma & Opa. They had already sent it away to be fixed once and just didn't want to invest any more money into it. We were informed Opa was devastated when it stopped working properly.  He loved this coffee machine like no other. Once they replaced it with a new one,  they asked Hubby if he wanted it to have a look at and possibly fix it when he had a chance.

We are so happy Hubby said yes. It has brought with it some simple enjoyments and treasured memories.  He literally took it all apart and gave it a good cleaning with the help of The Lil man just before Christmas ...

... and just like that we have been enjoying some fancy dancy coffee...  with frothed milk!

YES FROTHED milk!! Oma said, not even the factory repair people were able to fix the frother like Hubby did. I'm so proud of him!   It's been wonderful!!  The Lil Man now loves helping Dad make the coffee. We only have "special coffee" when Hubby is home on the weekends as we don't want to take away from it's specialness. {We may just have to buy one for ourselves when this one calls it quits for good as we are really enjoying it}.

 

We figured the fix would only last a couple days because it sounded really bad every time the machine started up, so we have been enjoying at least 2 cups of coffee per day. Much to our surprise,  here we are at the end of January and we are still enjoying this amazing coffee machine.  Surprisingly the machine is not as loud at start up.  It will be interesting to see how long it runs.

Shortly after the machine was fixed, we discover Mr. H likes the frothed milk.  So we put a little (milk only ... no coffee ... he has enough energy in him)  in a little toy mug and he was so happy.

He has since upgraded to a porcelain mug which actually belonged to Hubby when he was younger. He just loves it.

We kind of take our coffee breaks seriously around here. A milk mustache is a must! It's been wonderful enjoying a simple thing such as a cup of coffee with my boys.