Finding Joy in Snarkville

Ok, so, I make a ton of hot breakfasts in my house.  It seems Duke does not do cold breakfast, like cereal.  Now, I’ll grant that I’m not a huge fan of Cheerios (unless covered in yummy, yummy sugar or honey or both), but my son never, no never, was a Cheerios eater.  In fact, when other parents began to chat about getting their kids to make their own breakfasts of cereal and milk, I was wondering if I’d still be making pancakes daily when I send him to college.

So, Summer Quest 2008 began, we talked about eating cold cereal and milk.  We chatted about it.  We did all the prep work.  Today, I took Duke to the grocery store and told him he could have ANY box he wanted provided that he ate it with milk.  He agreed!!!  Prince walked him up and down and picked out the top choices.  There was Chocolate Lucky Charms (“oh, my the sugar” is what it should have been called); Lucky Charms (or the, you might have to fight your mama for those crunchy marshmallows, AppleJacks, and finally:

So, I ran down the options with Duke.  “Do you want Lucky Charms, Applejacks or Meerkat Poop?” And he declared: “I want poop.”  At which point the mother of a child much younger snorted.  Her husband walked over and says, “what did I miss?”  I turn around and said, “I asked my son which cereal he wanted, ‘Lucky Charms or Meerkat poop?’ he says, ‘I want the poop one’ and that’s why I’m totally mother of the year.”  We bonded as they confessed that they would have called it Meerkat poop too.

It is a shame that I bring the class to this family

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