I honestly don't know, I stopped counting after 35. Hoarding food, mainly snacks, has been an issue with my adopted stepson for just about as long as I have known him. In all honesty, it has most likely gone on for the entire time that I have known him, it just took me a little while to catch on to how quickly certain items from the pantry were disappearing.

My adopted stepson's early childhood was not an easy one. Being raised by his paternal grandmother while his father was overseas in the military, and his mother was off doing her own thing, was a large enough hurdle for him to have to get over, but add to that, the fact that he was also growing up in... more