Morning thoughts

I was awakened this morning by the dulcet tones of my daughter yelling, “Mooooooooommmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeee.” Over and over again. Since she was using the same non-emergency yell she does every morning, I took a shower before heading upstairs.When I got out of the shower she was not yelling. In fact, I heard very little noise, which to all parents is the sign that the kids are Up To No Good.

Actually, what they were up to was pretty cute. When I got to the kids’ room I discovered that somehow Sophia had gotten into Simon’s crib (her superhero identity is, after all, Danger Girl) and the two of them were playing there. Which, you know, would be a much better way to start the day than yelling, “MOOOOMMMMEEEEEE.” At least for me.

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So we came out to the kitchen to make breakfast. I’ve started to make oatmeal again every morning, because it’s easier than deciding what to eat each and every a.m. I bought a box of McCann’s Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal, which takes a few minutes to make, instead of cooking up a pot of steel cut oats at the beginning of the week and eating a little bit every day.

Can someone explain this to me? The cooking instructions, for both traditional (on the stove) and microwave is to take a 1/3 cup of oatmeal, mix with water or milk, and cook. Makes a darn fine size bowl of oatmeal. The nutritional information, however, is for a serving size of 1/2 cup of dry oatmeal. Why on earth would they do that? It’s not hard to figure the math for the calories in a 1/3 cup, but still.