A Star is Made

Coffee is one of my many vices. But since I have such a delicate composition, too many times I have tried a new brand of coffee or coffee flavor, only to end up spending the entire day in the bathroom. My husband keeps asking why I continue to drink coffee if I know it makes me sick.

My grandparents' condo always smelled like coffee. So the smell evokes memories of grandma & grandpa's house for me. Cool toys. Warm hugs. Great food. Who wouldn't want to revisit that as often as possible? And if it means an occasional (okay, maybe more than occasional) foray to the potty, so be it.

On one of my many wanderings into health food/alternative medicine, I came across Teecino. Founded by Caroline MacDougall, a woman who knows her way around tea, Teecino is a coffee alternative made from, as best as I can tell, nuts and twigs. But the nuts and twigs are ground in such a way as to taste pretty darned good. They have all kinds of flavors and you brew it the same as you would coffee. So I can get my coffee fix and flavor without the bathroom jaunts and without the caffeine. And because it has no caffeine and is all-natural, it is perfectly safe for kids to drink.

As you can tell, I have become a bit of a fan. And when the company announced a contest highlighting why we drink it, I had to give it a go. And who better to enter the contest with, than my trusty sidekick Sean Gabriel?

When I asked if he'd want to do a Teecino Testimonial, Sean was completely game. We had an absolute ball filming the little ditty. And while the quality may not be top-notch -- Steven Spielberg can rest soundly without worry of me getting his job -- the end product turned out better than I'd feared. Directing a kid is much harder than it looks!

I will wait until the winner of the contest is announced before I go into any detail of the video shoot and show you any outtakes.

But meanwhile, here is our contest submission: