lucky charms

today was rather dull as journal entries go. i mean, it was the usual. got up, drank coffee (or the concoction that i refer to as coffee. a friend of mine, ms. teri carey, once saw me fixing my coffee and asked "do you even like coffee?" i really don't even start tasting until there are 3 sugars in), ate toast, fed kids, fed dog and ducks, took dog out, picked up poop with fancy new biodegradable doggie bags (feeling very green), lost mac at nearby pond, panicked causing the groundskeeper/handyman guy at our townhouses to come and see what i was yelling about, found mac, yelled at him, took him to the rec center for the afternoon, cleaned the house, met with mac's soon-to-be teacher to prepare her for the classroom disaster that she is headed for, etc.
the late afternoon, and dinner, were uneventful as well. i cheated and bought one of those rotisserie chickens and for dessert, we had cereal. i recently bought lucky charms - and i generally brag on myself for not buying sugary cereal for the kids - it's one of the few parenting things that i am proud of - but anyway, in a moment of weakness, i bought them some lucky charms. well, in all honesty, mac picked out coco puffs, amelia picked out fruity pebbles and i got the lucky charms for me. this is what happens when you take your children to the grocery store. but the sugary cereals are for dessert only - that's the rule. anway, i had forgotten how good lucky charms are. i used to eat all of the charms first because they are magically delicious and then i would eat the luckies out of guilt. but now, being more nutritionally savvy, i realize that it is okay to just eat the charms and spare myself all of the calories in the tasteless luckies.