Monkeying around...

Save the Turkeys!!! No! No! I won't eat!!! There must be something that is engrained in a person's genetic make up that causes an aversion to certain food items. Out of our family of seven we have one child who has from birth refused to eat meat almost always. There are certain exceptions occasionally, but more often than not F never eats meat. She is only 8 years old and doesn't wholly know what it means to be a vegetarian, but she is the closest that I have ever witnessed as being born with this aversion.

For the longest time I thought that she was just being obstinate because that is a very big part of her personality. From a very early age she was very noticably different than my other children in more ways than I could count. Though over time she outgrew lots of her differences, her aversion to meat was definitely not one of them. The poor kid has trouble even watching her siblings eat meat, especially chicken. Chicken is the worst of the worst in her book. At least it was until her discovery of turkey.

I don't quite remember if turkey was a problem last year or not. Maybe she just didn't notice me cleaning and stuffing it. Maybe she was too busy watching the parade or playing with her siblings. Who knows, but this year was a whole different matter! This year she just about panicked when she saw the naked bird sitting in the pan just waiting for me to remove it's innards. Eeewww that even sounds gross to me now that I really think about it.

Poor F she did her best to boycott the eating of turkey in our home. She went out of her way to convince the carnivores among us as to why this was a barbarian activity. And well, when gentle persuasion didn't do the trick she tried to strong arm us! She busted out with the heavy artillary...Her crayons and markers! She drew the lovely 5 fingered very colorful bird, because well turkeys are gorgeous creatures in her eyes. Nothing would stop her from arming herself with the picket sign above. So sad an end for her and all her effort!

I am not quite sure she even realised that the poor old bird was "done in" before he even made his way into our busy kitchen. I do believe if she could have willed it back to life she'd have done it in a minute! I am just really grateful that she forgives us for devouring the old gobble gobble right in front of her! Ghastly I tell you just ghastly! We did at least carve it and keep it in the kitchen and off the table...but only because it didn't fit! Hehehe! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!