Friday is donut day. Alice is off on Fridays and takes the kids for a donut breakfast on the way to school. That's just a couple blocks up from here. Then she stops back to get me, if I haven’t already walked over to meet them, and after the kids are deposited at school, we go out and have a real, grown-up breakfast.

Our kids—my grandkids--don't get sugar on their cereal, but they're allowed to have a sprinkled on topping of any mother-approved commercially sweetened and marketed product. This week it's "Mud and Bugs" which seems to be chocolate-flavored puffs and colored marshmallow bits--never a whole bowl of that kind of stuff. I have been teaching them to read labels; they get very excited when the protein goes over 2 grams. That's usually the criteria for whether what they pick fills most of the bowl or only a little of it on top...