A long time birthday tradition in my family is that on your birthday you get your own box of cereal. To understand why this is a big deal, you must first realize that I was raised with the following cereal options: toasty-o’s, crispy rice and corn flakes (at times). There was nary a Fruit Loop in sight. In order to sweeten such cereal, one had to add heaping spoonfuls of sugar. And on the magical day, once a year, you got your very own “sugar” cereal (to distinguish it from the “unsugared” cereal already in the house). My choice for at least 8 straight years was Lucky Charms. It was (and is) all that a sugar cereal should be: sweet, crunchy, intensely colorful, and left you with a sweet, purplish-colored bowl of milk at the end. I know there are stomachs churning at the thought of Lucky Charms, and normally I’d probably agree with you, but every 5 years or so a few of my childhood taste buds come back and I crave a bowl of Lucky Charms. So for the following reasons...
1. It is my birthday
2. I can buy my own cereal at any time
3. I have cravings when pregnant which often surprise me (yep, that’s right, pregnant, in case you didn’t catch my subtle hint in my last post).
4. It really has been at least 5 years since the last bowl
...I have purchased my own box of Lucky Charms. Happy Birthday to me!
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