Breakfast Anyone?

I always say that having a cupcake for breakfast is no different than having a muffin.  A cookie works also, especially since mine most often contain oatmeal..  And since I think it's really unfair to tell your kids they can't have something they have just seen you eat, there has been more than one occasion when a cupcake or a cookie was featured on their breakfast menu.  Now that I'm a mom, I do draw the line somewhere though.  Ice Cream, candy - not breakfast items.  (This was not my rule when I was in graduate school.  In those two years I had Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream or a handful of Peanut M&Ms for nearly every meal.  I do not kid.  I don't know why all of my hair didn't fall out due to lack of  nutrients.  I also don't know why I didn't weigh 400 pounds, but I guess you can do that kind of thing when you are 22.)  Another item most definitely not on the list of approved breakfast items - popsicles.  I added this one after coming downstairs the other morning to find all three kids already down here by themselves, happily watching PBS kids and sampling a variety of  flavors of popsicles that were all melting into a colorful array of very sticky puddles all over the kitchen table and dripping onto the floor.  Honestly, not my favorite way to start a day.  Although I do know from prior experience that it could be worse.  Oh, yes.  It could be worse.  The "We frosted our own brownies! " morning was definitely a more intense clean-up.