A little break

I have over half the groceries put away. I'm going to be a sneaky mom this week. I've hidden all the new snacks and cereals for now. It seems we have some snacks and cereals that just can't seem to make their way out of the pantry. So I'm not going to put the new snacks where they can see them til they eat some of this stuff that I guess they are tired of. Spoiled kids.

We always had the same old cereals in our cabinets, nothing with sugar, except for Oh's for Nicole. Nicole was special and the oldest and loved the most. She was tall and skinny and pretty (ok, she still is those things). She took ballet, tap and jazz and was in the Pom squad. She was even in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade one year. Ok, I'm just kidding. (Love ya big sis!) I could have done all those things, but I was a slacker. I would have much rather sat in my messy room all day and read a book or play with my barbies and eat my original creation, mayonaisse, lettuce, salt and pepper sandwiches on toast*.

Anyway, cereal, we always had honey nut cheerios, corn flakes, plain cheerios, puffed rice (mental note, pick up puffed rice, I love that stuff),I kinda remember plain shredded wheat being in there too. Didn't matter, my mother let us put sugar on it. We would put so much sugar on it, you could eat it by the spoonful when you got to the bottom of the bowl. Maybe I was the only one that did that. That would explain why I wasn't the skinny one in the family. I'm still bitter that I could never borrow any of Nicole or Marlen's cool trendy clothes. Should've laid off the sugar and the mayo sandwiches, eh?

As for snacks, it was apples or celery with peanut butter or whatever else we could find. I'm thinking the Little Debbie snack cakes were only for lunches and for my dad's middle of the night kitchen raids.

So basically what I am trying to say is these kids are spoiled rotten, they don't know how good they have it. So they can finish off the Lego fruit snacks, Applesauce, Snickers granola bars, Slim Jims, Ritz crackers and cheese packs, and Yo-Gos before I refill the snack drawer.

*In my mother's defense, she did have lunchmeat, cheese, tuna and pb&j in the cabinet for me to eat. We weren't poor. I chose to eat this.