A Family in Chaos

Addie and I spent the day together running errands, and chatting…. and those of you that have or have had 3 year olds, know the conversations can be AMAZING!!!

We spent alot of time around food today!

First, we went to the gym, they have a great daycare, as well as a VERY good cafe, Life Cafe. Anyway, after workout, we grab lunch, and our discussions turned to food, as they often do in our household!!!

3 year olds want to know EVERYTHING!! And I have always been a big proponent of giving knowledge! I however, may need to adjust my answers, they may not be as “age appropriate” as they could be.

As I said previously, she wants to know everything, and begins to wonder where our food comes from. Particularly, the chicken nuggets on her plate had her extremely curious. She had not yet made the connection between CHICKEN nugget, and the cute little chickens that are portrayed so cutely on cartoons, and in children’s literature.

THE LIGHT BULB WENT OFF!!

SHE DID NOT FINISH THEM!

Later, our errands led us to Costco. We had serious grocery shopping to do. We tend to put that off until we have NOTHING!!

Then we walk around Costco with two carts stacked 2 feet over the top of the basket. I can hear the other patrons whispering…..”do you think they are ‘polygamists’?” ….”WOW! I wonder if they are stocking their food storage room?” (that’s Mormon humor for you “out of staters”!)

ANYWAY!!! So after Addison’s barnyard revelation earlier at the Life Cafe, she now has begun to question every item that goes in the cart.

And then we get to the Meat Department… I began to load the cart up with all of the precious carnage, I like to call BEEF! If you have not learned this about me by now…I am a slow learner, so I told her where beef came from…

Now she has begun to question what kind of father I was…I allowed these animals to be killed so I could eat them, AND I WAS FEEDING THEM TO HER!! I’m not kidding, she was APPALLED!!

Addison – “But, Daddy, don’t they cry when they are killed?”

I ACTUALLY SAID THIS:

Me – “No, Honey, they WANT us to eat them!”

This is no joke, she was on the verge of TEARS!! BEGGING me, NO….DEMANDING….That I promise that I would not eat cows and chickens anymore.

ANYONE GOT ANY IDEA’S ON WHAT I CAN CALL CHICKEN NUGGETS NOW?

TOFU NUGGETS?