I'm afraid I'm a bit of a Starbucks addict.

Maybe someday I'll be able to have my weak black iced tea again -- a black tea diluted with a cup of iced water the same size. OTOH, maybe it's just as well skipping it and just having water. No candida or calorie or caffeine addiction worries that way.

But not going to Starbucks is good for me and good for my wallet. I actually did go with DH and the kids but all I had was a glass of water. I take my daughter there because she'll actually eat and drink some food there. She's extremely thin because of her ongoing GI condition. She's 5 and weighs 36 pounds and is 43 inches tall. She's finally putting on some weight. She didn't gain an ounce from 18 months to age 3. All she did was cry and cry because of her hellacious reflux. The poor child didn't sleep until she was three and half years old.

Our life is so much better now than it was a year ago. A year ago I was so stressed out that I would have broken down crying if I thought about never getting something from Starbucks again. It was my refuge there. 20 minutes a day that kept me barely sane.