RANDOM BIT #5

I occasionally like to post little stories, usually involving the strange things that come from the mouths of my children. I call them "random bits" because they don't fit into my other categories and because I can't really have a label called "strange things my children say and do that crack me up".

So without further ado...

Lovely child comes into the kitchen, curious as to this evening's menu.  Suddenly a look of horror and disgust comes over said child's face.  "Mama!' with surprise and shock. "There is NO WAY I'm eating those!" Then in almost a whisper and accompanied by a shudder of repulsion, "They have started to hatch."  

At first I said "Huh?"  And then I laughed hysterically and grabbed my camera.  Perhaps you should know that my child has a severe distrust of anything resembling mushrooms, fungus or growths of any kind.  In fact, he made a huge detour around a fallen log, on a recent nature hike, so he would not have to look upon the semicircular tree fungus growing in a neat row along the log.  The rest of us walked to the tree to investigate and I, of course,  took a few photos.
Now before you think I am a cruel mother, making my amusement from my child's phobia, I will tell you that he thinks it's so funny that I shudder if I have to drink from a styrofoam cup.  I can't help it.  I hate the feel of styrofoam on my mouth and the smell of my tea in a hot styrofoam cup.  We all have our oddities and we love each other anyway. 


I share this today for my Sixty Seconds on Tuesday post because it is the funniest 60 seconds I have had in my kitchen in a long time.  


Sorry for the weirdness today.  I promise things will be back to normal tomorrow!