Hallie is an animal lover. She is not currently a vegetarian but she has considered it. This was our conversation tonight over dinner.
Hallie- "Megan this is an animal."
Megan- "What kind of animal?"
Hallie- "It is a chicken, you know, like a hen."
Megan- "Oooh... but, I like chickens."
Hallie- "The chicken wants a life, it wants to learn. It doesn't want to 'peep, peep'... KILL!"
Megan- "... How does Heavenly Father kill the chickens?"
This conversation reminded me of many conversations we had a few years ago when Hallie first discovered that we eat animals. We were eating steak and she asked me what it was and where it came from. I made the mistake of being totally honest and she was horrified. She still will not eat steak. Megan witnessed all of these conversations and I remember one day at preschool Megan and I were playing in the little kitchen with the plastic food and I said, "Megan will you make me a hamburger?" She said, "That is not a hamburger. It's dead cow."
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Conversations over dinner
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My brother would totally love this conversation. Jared always tries to make us feel awful for eating meat.
That is so funny!
BTW- Happy Birthday Trevor, we are sorry we didn't send in a fun memory of you. It wasn't because we don't have any, (remember that time we got lost for 4 hours in the desert?) but the time got away from us. :)
-Mike and Steph
LOL! I am laughing out loud at conversation! That are wise beyond their years!
They crack me up! I can picture Trev and Kim being that way too. They have always been animal lovers. I just love Hallie's response about the chicken...too funny. Your kids are so cute! I love watching the slide show of the pictures you took of them.
This is SO funny Kathryn!! You are totally raising up-and-coming vegetarians - just wait for it. I love steak way too much to care that it's dead cow. (Don't tell Hallie that.)
Sorry that I can't spell or structure complete sentences that make sense! I think I was laughing to hard!
Your kids are hilarious. And I think you are awesome for catching it all and recording it. We have the dead animal conversations all the time at our dinner table. It really kills the desire to eat when they call it dead cow. . .
I love the conversation! the peep peep KILL is HILARIOUS!!!
My inlaws were farmers and still have a farm, one year they raised 4 pigs and gave one to each family for Christmas... They had them slaughtered and filled up my deep freeze with pork chops, ribs, pork loins etc..
The kids refused to eat the meat, Kari said she would not eat animals that she has met (Grandma kept the pigs at their house for a few months)...Everytime we sat down to dinner she would ask me if it was meat from Grandma's pig.. I have to admit I might have "lied" and told her that I got the meat at Kroger a few times :-)..
So she doesn't want to eat a dead cow, but does want to drink canola oil. Interesting!
Hey Kathryn-I had your blog address from your Christmas letter and am finally visiting and commenting! Your kids are getting so big! Doesn't time fly? Don't kids say the funniest things! I have to write most of them down too, because my Megan is almost out of the "saying funny things" stage, and if I didn't have them all written down I'd either forget them, or not really be able to believe she said them! Hope all is well for you. Visit our (new) blog at:ourmostofthetimehappyfamily.blogspot.com/
That's so funny! So I guess Paul and I should quit referring to steak and hamburger as dead cow... so that when Jonas starts to catch on we can break it to him "gently"?? Priceless!!
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