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Sep. 10th, 2010 10:16 amWas 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???
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???
