Semi-OT: Waaaah - My baby's leaving me!

Kathy N-V · 2003-07-21T04:33:45+00:00

My little pork chop has only five days left with me before she sets out into the big wide world without her Mama. Her new passport arrived yesterday, and we spent a little bit comparing this new one to the ones she's had since babyhood. At 13, this is her last "child" passport. The next one will be good for ten years, starting when she is eighteen.Looking at the baby passport, DD commented that she used to have "squinty" eyes. I laughed and told her that her eyes never squinted, it was her chubby baby cheeks, which she found appalling. The young child passport was better, but DD had just grown her adult teeth, which gave her a bit of a bunny rabbit look. This passport breaks my heart, since she looks like the nearly grown up woman she thinks she is.My stepmother took DD out for some last minute shopping, which turned out to be fruitless. (Child has no shopping genes) When they returned, my stepmother alerted me to some things DD had said, and wanted me to discuss my mother's "travel rules."Unbeknownst to me, my mom has been telling DD all the things she's supposed to do...and eat. My grandparents have what I would call "old fashioned" tastes, meaning "you eat it before it eats you." Over the years, I've been served every part of a pig but the oink, pet pigeons, pet bunny rabbits, horse and god only knows what else. DD, being a city child, prefers her meat wrapped in plastic at the market, and thinks that pigeons are flying rats, bunnies are pets and would sooner eat a dog than a horse. Mom knows this, but it using the same tack she used on me at DD's age: hissing threats through her teeth, ordering the gagging one to choke it down and like it.DD was in a dither: What if Oma and Opa serve her Pig's head? (My siblings and I are deeply scarred from watching Opa eat pig face for breakfast one morning when we were kids) She wanted to know if they hunt squirrels and woodchucks or if she'd have to eat pig hoofs. (Do pigs even have hooves?)So, I modified...

Jul 21, 2003 20 Replies

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melinda 23 years ago

Must be another state based thing, I've not heard of that particular name for snags before!

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