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Was just pottering through the zillion scrapbook blogs I sort-of follow, even though I don't really scrapbook much anymore. And I saw this layout a mother had done about her daughter. One of those "Every day you... [fill in the blank]" layouts which would be great if I had other people to scrap about. Anyway, the one sentence was "Everyday you ... want an egg over-easy and toast for breakfast."

OK. So.

I do not understand this world of mothers cooking breakfast for their children. I assume my mother must have done it some of the time. But mostly I have no memory of that kind of thing.

Was breakfast a sit down meal for you? As best I can recall, there was cereal and I was expected to get it myself.

Mostly I think it was that my mother had already left for work and wasn't AROUND to fix breakfast, but honestly, I really don't remember weekday breakfasts as a child.

And I don't even know how to process this lack of memories.

I suspect that my LONGSTANDING 'leap out of bed 2.5 minutes before needing to leave the house' routine might owe something to this lack of established morning routine, but I don't know.

And the thought of little eight year old me being responsible for getting myself up and dressed and fed for school by myself... and then coming home alone to an empty house after school to wait for my parents to get home from work... well that's just an unbearably bleak and lonely childhood. But it might explain some things.

Now I'm curious. Anyone wanna share their childhood morning/breakfast routines? What was the rest of the world doing during this blank spot in my memories???

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My parents used to wake us up in the morning before school when we were younger, but I can't remember breakfast being sit-down past the point when I was in HS. We usually ate breakfast and when we were younger, our parents would make it for us, but it wasn't... elaborate. Mostly it was toast or a bagel or something, not eggs or pancakes.

The weird eating thing we did, however, was eating in front of the teevee. Until I was in 8th grade, my dad and mom both had shift work (my dad was a firefighter and my mom worked at a hospital), so there was usually only one parent home at a time and unless they were both home, we pretty much ate wherever we wanted. When I was about 13, my dad finally was promoted to officer and had a regular 9-5 schedule. My mom's schedule also changed, and suddenly they were both home for dinner every night. So, right around the time my friends STOPPED having sit-down family dinners, my family started XD

*waves*

Mom was stay-at-home, we had cereal and stuff but she always made toast, and bacon was always available. Juice and such. Sunday lunch was always the big weekend meal.

My own kids...of course they are the age now where we all have vastly different schedules so breakfast together never happens, but when they were younger we always made big breakfasts on the weekend, both days. Breakfast, then eat early dinner. Biscuits, sausage, bacon, eggs, the whole shebang. Lotsa food! After their dad died, we kept that going until son started to be like a teenager--stay up late, sleep late. LOL. Now and then we go to eat breakfast together but I admit it has been awhile! They are both just so grown-up, busy with their lives.

When I was that age my mum used to make me toast and tea for breakfast... as bribery to get me out of bed! (This is what happens when parents don't understand insomnia is a real Thing.)

Weekends were fend-for-yourself, as my parents would sleep in.

When my sister and I were very young, my mom did the make-breakfast, make-our-lunches-for-school thing. But she taught us to do a lot of that stuff on our own (along with picking out our daily outfits and packing our school stuff) because she went back to work as soon as I hit middle school.

The only thing I really remember about childhood breakfasts is giving the daschunds the cereal milk.

the only time we ever had a sit-down-family-at-the-table elaborate breakfast was on christmas morning - it was our tradition: sausage, eggs, bacon, and blueberry muffins

when i was growing up, both my parents worked so i spent before and after school at my grandmother's house with all my cousins - she used to make us all breakfast if we wanted it: toast, bagel, cereal, maybe eggs