Turkeys

In honor of the upcoming holiday this week, the subject of Family Home Evening tonight was Thanksgiving. We told the story of the first Thanksgiving and talked about the pilgrims and Indians (Native Americans?). We especially focused on religious freedom and thanking God for all that we have.

However, Kyle always has his own agenda.

Tonight was the first time that he made the connection between the cute, little turkeys that go "gobble, gobble" around the zoo and the roasted bird that sits on our table every November. I wondered when this moment would happen and dreaded the trauma I knew it would inflict upon him.

Trauma? Yeah, right! My child has no qualms with eating those cute little birds. He listened carefully, processed this new information and had only one question for me:

"Mom, why don't we eat the feathers, too?"