It was a normal morning. I woke up, quietly went downstairs to have my breakfast. I had finally gotten through one box of cereal and was excited to start on the Cinnamon Life Avery and I had picked up at the store the week before. I grabbed the box off the shelf and had that “no way” moment when the box felt suspiciously light. I knew this couldn’t be the case. There was a box of Ave’s partially eaten cereal on the shelf. There is no way he would have bypassed the already open box just to hit up some Life, right?
Wrong. So wrong. That’s exactly what he had done. (To his credit, Avery claims he told me earlier this week that he was going to start in on the Life so I would have to be quick if I wanted some. I have no such memory).
For all of you living with another sleeping, breathing, EATING thing? That you have something in your mind that you want to eat only to find that you have been beaten to it? This happens a lot in our house when it comes to leftovers. Avery and I will both think to eat the same leftovers and one of us always deals with the disappointment of finding it was already consumed by someone else. Then the ridiculous conversation commences.
“Avery, did you eat the rest of the pot roast?”
“Yeah honey. Why?”
“Well it just sounded really good. I was going to eat it.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I already ate it.”
(Irrational anger follows)
This is another one of those mind-reading moments. Of course Avery had just as much of a right the leftovers and the Life cereal as I did. Clearly though, he should have used his ESP to know that I actually wanted it. What so wrong with that? But until then, I am going to add Life cereal to the shopping list…
Source:
http://themarriedlady.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/life-cereal/