NyCee and the Poptart

This information is vital to understanding the story. My children eat a full breakfast every morning before school. It is includes: turkey bacon, fruit, vitamins and a cup of milk. The middle component varies from day to day: grits, oatmeal, eggs, pancakes,etc. Okay, let's proceed.

I pick up NyCee from school and she says, "Mom, I stole a poptart." To which I replied, "I am not clear. Why did you steal a poptart?"

Her teacher, Mrs. Bilow approached me and began to tell the story. (Backstory: NyCee gets dropped off at school around 8:10a. I have to get Tyler to school by 8:30a. NyCee knows to go straight to her classroom and then the play ground. Okay, let's keep going.)

NyCee has been going to the lunch room everyday and having breakfast while she waits for the bell to ring. On the day in question, NyCee walked into the lunch room and "stole" the pop-tart. Mrs. Bilow, NyCee's teacher, stated, "No, she didn't steal it. She has a pop-tart everyday." To which I replied, "Really? She shouldn't be."

To further exacerbate the matter, when Ms. Heidi, the lunch room attendant, tried to stop NyCee from "stealing" said pop tart, NyCee became indignant and sass mouthed Ms. Heidi. Seriously, NyCee stop the train from running off the tracks!



That is why she was reported to Mrs. Bilow. Now a few days before, NyCee said, "Mom, Ms. Shannon, (lunch room manager), said I need lunch money." I could not understand why my child needed lunch money when she takes her lunch to school. Well, then the story came full circle. I later learned that my child would not only eat breakfast but help the other kids by making toast, opening milk containers, offering cereal, etc. Hence is why her lunch account was in a negative balance.

When I asked NyCee why she was eating breakfast at school every day, she replied, "Because I like pop-tarts." And with that, I was too done!