(scene opens with mom coming from grocery shopping)
Me: (humming, puts away groceries, pulls out bag of hazelnut M&Ms, divides equally in four bowls, hands them out)
Alpha: (doesn’t notice bowl balanced on his belly, too busy raiding)
Beta: (takes it with extreme dramatic suffering, cheek stuffed with gauze)
Delta: M&Ms!? I LOVE M&Ms!
Gamma: (hands bowl back) Mom, I only like Skittles.
Me: (sighs) Eat your M&Ms, sweetie. They’re good for you.
(scene opens in brighter kitchen, partially clean)
Me: Tart chilling, cran-apple sauce chilling, butternut soup in the crock. Time for breakfast. (takes mini-cupcake off a tray) Please tell me you had one of these before I eat them all.
Husband: (washing dishes) No.
Me: They’re delicious. Pumpkin spice cake with cream-cheese frosting. You didn’t have any last time and I bought these specifically for breakfast.
Husband: (dismissive) You don’t have cupcakes for breakfast.
Me: (outraged) Why not?! There are breakfast burritos, no reason we can’t have breakfast cupcakes! (takes another mini cupcake) Besides, now its noon and so now they’re lunch cupcakes.
