The Morning Routine, sort of

This morning Sunny woke me up, pretty much the same way she does every morning, by saying “Mom, I’m hungry. Get out of bed.” I rolled out of bed. It was 7:30. I poured cereal for Sunny and Leo. I had some coffee. The kids got dressed. I kissed them goodbye and sent them out the door to school.

Badger woke up about the same time as everyone else was leaving. He wanted a toaster strudel for breakfast. And chocolate milk. With no chocolate. This is what Badger calls the pre-mixed chocolate milk that you buy from the grocery store, chocolate milk with no chocolate. He calls it this to differentiate between the chocolate milk that starts out as regular milk and that I add chocolate syrup to make into chocolate milk. That is chocolate milk with chocolate. Badger HATES chocolate milk with chocolate, but loves it without. Go figure.

I drank coffee and watched TV with Badger for a long time. Until like 11 am. I was hungry and decided to have a bowl of cereal. Special K with red berries. I poured my cereal and then I poured some milk on top. Chocolate milk. With no chocolate.

I have no good explanation for why this happened. I wasn’t tired, or very distracted. I wasn’t wanting to try something new. I wanted regular milk on my cereal, I absolutely meant to pour it on my Special K. But I picked up the gallon of chocolate milk and poured it on my cereal and didn’t even realize what I was doing until I was practically finished. I’m guessing it’s an early indicator of Alzheimer’s. Or some other horrible disease.

I ate the whole bowl of cereal. I didn’t want to waste it. It really wasn’t that bad. Go figure.