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well, we thought that the 2 kids had outgrown their cereal turf war (see Breakfast cereal wars & Breakfast cereal wars – revenge).
nearly 3 years later they are still at it.
number 2 has just gone away with the school for a week. the house was a bit uncharacteristically quiet.
we opened one of the lesser used cupboard doors to get something or other, and hey presto…
number 2 was hiding a secret reserve stash of cereals for when she comes back.
No 1 didn’t realise that there were actually some chocolate cereals left. But she obviously realised that she went quite a few days without her choco fix.
No 2 even managed not to tell No 1 about her cunning plan.
Sitting with No 2 again at the breakfast table. No idea where No 1 is at breakfasts.
“Oh my goodness!”
The soap worked.
“Look what she’s done!”
The packet was in the normal place in the cupboard and everything looked OK to me.
“She glued the top of the cereal packet to make it look like it’s not opened!”
There’s hope for No 1 after all.
We can’t get the kids to stop eating Chocolatey breakfast cereals and eat something healthier. This might not be the biggest issue but it causes a bit of myther when it runs out and one of them can’t get their fix in the morning. And the only other option is some of The Wife’s organic muesli (without chocolate but usually has some sort of life enhancing berry). Which isn’t really an option.
I’m sitting at the breakfast table with No2 one morning. She’s pretty narked.
“do you know what she did!”
“but I know how she thinks”
That is actually quite worrying. There are two of them like that.
“she can’t trick me”
No2 is now looking a bit smug.
“She thinks that by hiding the cereals behind the pasta I won’t find it”
True, Baldrick could have done better.
“Well, I’ll hide it under the potatoes. She’ll never look there”
The only issue is that now The Wife is complaining that her Goji berry muesli is running out.