"Coffee makes grown-ups look better in the morning"

My 6-year-old proclaimed all of the sudden last night when he watched me taking off my face (make-up). I burst out laughing and asked him to elaborate.

"You look funky in the morning when you don't have your coffee. Then when you come home from work, you look pretty. And then you look funky again when it is bedtime. You and daddy just look better after you have your coffee in the morning."

Moments like this make me appreciate being a mother.

This morning when he woke me up though, he said, "You should go and have some coffee now. You look funky." I dared not ask him what he meant by funk-ee...