Chocolate Pudding!

My friend sent my son some snacks in the mail the other day. She sent a big box filled with cheese and crackers, skittles, pudding, top Ramon, graham crackers, etc..Lots of good stuff that kids and I must admit adults like me like too. It kind of brought me back to my childhood after I opened the box and was drooling over these snacks. I must admit that my waistline didn't need to be eating anything in that box. And for the better part of three days I didn't. I only had a couple of graham crackers and secretly lusted over all the candies, crackers, pudding and other goodies. It was hard. Then it happened. One night I couldn't sleep for the life of me. I tried reading that didn't work. I tried doing some light cleaning, that didn't work. I couldn't come in the kitchen to use the computer because I didn't want to wake anyone up that didn't need to be up. I was wishing that I had a laptop or tablet right about then. I tossed and turned and turned and tossed for a while and then I found The Lucy Show on antenna TV. That was one of my favorite shows back in the day. Actually, anything with Lucille Ball in it was a favorite show of mine. I loved watching her. So, of course there was an episode of Lucy eating baked beans, at the end. That made me hungry. I wasn't hungry for baked beans though I wanted something a lot more sweeter. My sweet tooth was in overdrive. I knew that I should not have gone near the kitchen with all those sweet sugary snacks just starring at me on the table saying to me, "What are you waiting for? Eat me, eat me." I tried to resist. I really did. I looked in the fridge for an apple, orange, anything sweet. But, the apples and oranges just wouldn't do. So, I did it. I reached for the jello pudding and a spoon. I knew that I would probably die from the guilt in the morning but I didn't care I needed and wanted that pudding. 

I walked fast across the squeaky floor past my sleeping mom and past my sleeping nephew. I got to my room smiling like I had pulled a pudding heist. I couldn't wait to dip my spoon in all the chocolate goodness. I carefully pulled back the top that was separating me from that chocolate goodness and filled my spoon with it. I took a big spoon. None of those little spoons would do for my pudding mission. I filled that spoon to the brim with chocolate pudding and it was like heaven on a spoon. I savored every single bite and laughed quietly at Lucy on TV. 

I was enjoying my pudding and Lucy and then my son woke up. I looked up and there he was on his way to the bathroom but he stopped briefly and wiped his eyes and looked at me. I looked at him with pudding on my lips. He asked me if that was HIS pudding. I said no it was now MY pudding and told him to hurry up and go to back to bed. He was bringing my pudding buzz down. I was almost done and wanted to enjoy my guilty pleasure in peace. 

I finished all of the cup of pudding and briefly contemplated on getting another one but I didn't. I was happy with one and hoped that I would return to sleeping slumber before I changed my mind. I watched another episode of Lucy and then turned off the TV and fell asleep. I am not sure what I dreamed about but in the morning I had the best breakfast ever. Yes, chocolate pudding in a cup.