Maxime in the small hours of the morning

I have mentioned before, but in due course I felt I just need to put it down again. Maxime gets up at 6.30 AM every school day, which is when it is still black outside, goes downstairs in the cold dark hallway to the kitchen and fixes a cereal. Sometimes turning on a cartoon on the computer, sometimes sitting in silence, and then catches the bus at the end of our driveway at 7.25 AM.

He has missed this bus once.

I am just amazed at this record. He started doing this at ten years old.

On occasion, there are notes for Mama or me. Today, we see an example of how he requests a new box of cereal, since the other one was getting down toward the bottom.

It reads:

Buy another please / thank you Mama / I love you very strongly

A kernel of the cereal was attached to the note.