Recipes for happiness.
Liquid Meet-Cute
– 4 shots of espresso over ice in a grande cup
– 4 pumps of white chocolate syrup
– Add one woman, fragile with fear and grief, and send her up in a plane
– Combine with one tender-hearted skydiving instructor who offers to skip the skydive and ride the plane down instead
– Jump anyway. Jump with this man, even when your hands shake and your stomach is in your throat. Make one skydive, and then make another, and make hundreds more after that. And when the instructor asks you on a date, say yes. Yes! You’ve already trusted him with your life.
– Drizzle with chocolate.
Warm Sugar Cookie
– White mocha hot chocolate
– Hazelnut syrup (1 pump tall, 2 grande, 3 venti)
– Vanilla syrup (1 pump tall, 2 grande, 3 venti)
– Sprinkle raw sugar on top
– Add the winter day on the steps of Immaculata Church, warming your hands on a thermos and watching the sun rise over Mt. Adams.
Amazonian Honeymoon
– Start with raspberry syrup (2 pumps tall, 3 pumps grande, 4 pumps venti)
– Add strawberry, orange, mango and very berry juice to the first line
– Fill with lemonade to top
– Spend days chattering with monkeys, rowing the Amazon and drinking rum on a sugar plantation. Fall asleep in a thatched rainforest hut, smeared with deet, bodies tangled like jungle vines
– Add ice and shake!
Stormy Days Tea
– Earl Grey tea semi dry misto
– 2 pumps vanilla syrup
– 2 pumps of caramel syrup
– Add one skydiving accident
– A move across the country
– One stolen car
– Your mother’s death
– Fertility issues
– Miscarriage
– Illness
– Moving. Three more times.
– Cling to each other because the world feels too vicious and sad to navigate alone.
Anniversary Cake Frappuccino
– Vanilla soy frappuccino
– 2 pumps hazelnut
– Add 1 beautiful, boisterous baby
– Toss in 2 teeth cutting baby’s gums
– A broken dryer and a clogged kitchen sink
– Burn the pancakes and forget to make the coffee
– Call the babysitter
– Drive away giggling because the dishes can wait and the laundry will air dry, but this is your anniversary day
– Go to the movies and hold hands for two hours, as though you just met
– Get massages to work out the kinks
– Kiss in the car
– Never forget how lucky you are
– Add whipped topping (optional)
