Lucky Charms

This bowl of Lucky Charms is Sam's dream come true. It is all marshmallows, without any of the regular pieces. Towards the end of the school year, Sam would ask for Lucky Charms and sometimes just eat a few marshmallows before getting dressed and heading out the door at 7:35. Preparing breakfast for Sam is a difficult task. He used to like to have 5 mini-pancakes, but he won't eat them anymore. There is a huge bag of probably 100 mini-pancakes in the freezer, hand-made by Dad on several Sunday mornings. It is now a ghost bag of lost pancake souls, which will be discarded when they start to grow that hairy ice on them. Mom instituted a rule about half-way through the school year that all existing cereal boxes must be completed before any new ones will be purchased. This was a sad day for Sam's breakfast, as there are all sorts of cereals left in the pantry that there is no chance he will eat. Fortunately for mom, she was long gone by breakfast time so did not have to deal with the consequences of the rule. Another problematic rule was that we could only get the "healthy" Pop Tarts, so that was pretty much the end of Pop Tarts for Sam's lunch.

The good news is that Sam has started eating chicken sandwiches, at least for the moment. This is the replacement for chocolate sandwiches, that he ate for about 6 months and then abandoned. He also stopped eating pound cake about 1/3 of the way through the school year, which was another temporary lunch staple.