Our family believes in good nutrition.
We do.
It just doesn’t always sound like it . . .
My son and DIL were entertaining.
Dinner was winding down and dessert was being distributed.
Yummy dessert.
With ice cream.
Now, I should probably mention here that their kids are known vegetable/fruit eaters.
Oh, they like other things. It’s just that, if given the choice, they have been known to go for the ‘healthy’ alternative.
But I digress . . .
Their mother had made buttered, dill carrots as one of the vegetable dishes with dinner. A noted family favourite.
Eight-year-old Daughter Number Two, hereinafter known as D2, was agitating for a third helping.
A third helping.
"Please, please, please?"
“No,” her mother said. “Your sister hasn’t had seconds yet. I’m not giving you thirds until she has had a chance.”
Still D2 continued. "Mo-om!"
“No!” her mother said. “Not until everyone has had seconds.”
More coaxing. "Please, Mom?"
“No! Stop asking!”
D2 is nothing, if not persistent. “Pleeease?”
“Argh!” (real word) “You’re not having more Carrots!”
“But Mom . . .!”
“NO MORE CARROTS! EAT YOUR ICE CREAM!”
Hmm . . . okay . . . not something you hear every day . . .
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| Sooo . . . which would you choose? |
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| I know what MY choice would be... |
Definitely not something you hear every day. I am not a fan of icecream (once or twice a year is plenty). Carrots (raw ones) are much more to my taste.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I need to "butter/dill" my carrots so my husband would enjoy them more! He would definitely choose ice cream :)
ReplyDeleteOkay, okay, so would I :)
So funny! I can say with certainty that's a sentence I never heard uttered before (especially in my house).
ReplyDeleteNow, speaking of raising your children right - except that ice cream should sometimes come first. And no, you would never hear that sentence in my house, either.
ReplyDeleteOh, i like that! Good for her.
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