43 years, 5 months.

Dear Jill,

The longer we are married, the more I notice our curious similarities, as well as our curious differences.

For example, I drink two black straight shots of espresso when I wake up, then two more a few hours later.

It’s nothing interesting nor exciting.

As for you though, it’s an entire coffee experience. I thought that having our very own De’Longhi espresso machine made us fancy enough.

But then your friend Jennifer introduced you to the Ember heated coffee mug.

And now we own two of them. One for you- and one for a lucky guest.

(Because I don’t have the patience to drink a warm cup of coffee.)

You were so happy the day they arrived in the mail from Amazon. Holly and I both said the same thing when we saw the lady on the box for it:

“That lady is basically Mommy.” Seriously, we’re not wrong.

Once you started using your Ember coffee mug, I realized immediately  that I would need to start writing down some of your real-time commentary:

“Oh, I think I need to log in and put in my password.”

“Okay, it’s still downloading… it says it needs an update.”

“Warm to the last drop.”

“Ah, this is great. It’s like… almost burning my lip.”

“I should be their spokesperson.”

Out of the two of us, I thought I was the funny one. But after having a front-row seat to your Ember coffee mug commentary, I might have to give that status to you.

Love,

Nick