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over a year ago
Here I am, 34 and eating left over meat loaf with salsa, cous cous, and left over lasagne to be washed down my gullet with a Pepsi.
Life is indeed grand.
Who cares if it is not a healthy breakfast or if it is not the standard or acceptable breakfast?
I say, gone are the days of me waking up to an empty and hungry stomach...the wonderful childhood alarm clock that woke me up...the consistant morning companion and nightly.
I say gone are the days of wondering if my Mom would come home and if my brothers or sisters will be home today.
Gone are the days when I will look in the bare cupboards and listen to my stomach protest at the emptiness of the cupboards; letting out a I feel the same way as the cupboards look.
Gone are the days where I would have to wait til darkness fell to sneak into my neighbours garbage cans looking for something to eat. Hunger has no pride.
Survival is all that there is when you are five and on your own.
34. I am 34. *grins* I survived. I am WOMAN! *beats her flat but comely chest* : P
I am a Mother of four. So that promise I made myself when I was five, of being a Mom and making sure my kids don't have to go hungry, don't have to go without clothes and shoes, go without a Christmas...I have kept diligently.
Don't get me wrong, there have been times where we had to have a humble Christmas, and there were times when we had to dress modestly...but there was ALWAYS food on my table.
So when my kidlets go to the fridge and it is full and when they go to the pantry and it is full...and they let out a whine of how there is nothing to eat...I know otherwise. It's an odd comfort to hear them complain.
My fridge is always open to my kidlets and to guests. My food is my neighbours food. They ask for help; I give what I can so long as my kids are not going without. The wonder of doing this...my food last longer when I share it. How beautiful is that?
*kicks back her feet* *sips Pepsi*
Healthy breakie my arse!
Posted on 23 January 2007 @ 16:42 (London time) - permalink
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willywombat, posted
over a year ago