One day another mom that homeschools and I were spending
the day together. As the children were playing, we
recounted various stories to one another and just enjoyed
each other's company.

The subject came up of being frugal and not wasting food.
Her face jumped to a story with obvious relevance to this
topic, and my three-year-old and I listened intently.

"Angie," she said. "I was grilling hamburgers outside
this past summer, and they were just done.... nice and
juicy."

She has four children just like me, so I knew she was
talking about at least eight hamburgers.

"As I was taking the meat off the grill, it slipped, and
all the meat fell into the ashes!! I couldn't just throw
them away! So I scooped those puppies up, brought them
inside, carefully washed them off, and we ate them! They
were just fine. In fact, they tasted great!"

As I was congratulating her on a job well done and a
problem successfully overcome, I noticed the distressed
look on my young daughter's face.

In total seriousness and quite earnestly she said,
"No, we don't eat puppies!! No! We pet puppies!"