Repost from digital diary from 2002
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‘The dinosaur got red, yeah mom yeah?”
“Yes, Josh. There’s blood inside the dinosaur”
“The big T-Rex wants to eat other dinosaurs, yeah mom yeah?”
“Yes, Josh. Sometimes dinosaurs eat dinosaurs. Like Joshua eat chicken, you know”
“There’s red inside the chicken and dinosaur, yeah mom yeah?”
“Yes, Josh. There’s blood inside the chicken and dinosaur. We are all living beings, we all have blood”
“Mom, when dinosaur eat dinosaur, the other dinosaur die yeah, mom?”
“Yes, Joshua”
“When Joshua eat the chicken, the chicken die yeah mom?”
“I’m afraid so. It has to be dead before we eat it, Josh”
“It’s painful, yeah mom”
Pause.
“Look, there’s a spider on the wall, Josh! GO catch it!”
“The chicken is painful yeah mom?”
Pause.
“You want to read a book now, Josh?”
“No mom”
“Yes, it’s painful”
“The chicken and dinosaur die yeah mom, yeah?”
“Yes, Josh. They die”
It’s difficult to explain why we inflict pain on animals just because we have to or want to eat them. Kids might come up with questions we don’t really want to answer….or can’t answer.
I was kind of a little sad when I read the news about this - there will be no live-in Indonesian maids in Malaysia anymore.
There are pros and cons to having a live-in maid, as with everything else, but for us, we enjoyed more pros than cons. Back then, when my kids were little, we brought in a family of maids to help with...well, just about everything, and we were like two families merged into one. They ate what we ate, we sleep, they sleep, we shop, they shop, they joke, we laugh, we joke, they laugh...for me, the maid I hired was more like a sister and side-kick to me.
For that few years, I was dependent on her to mind-read my schedule and when I need or don't need help. She picked things up quickly and we ended up having lots of moments whereby we were in sync. Today, two of them are on my Facebook and we were gleefully chatting over Facebook Messenger since they've just discovered the wonders of the Internet and Social Media.
Since we were more like partners in crime, I f…
There are pros and cons to having a live-in maid, as with everything else, but for us, we enjoyed more pros than cons. Back then, when my kids were little, we brought in a family of maids to help with...well, just about everything, and we were like two families merged into one. They ate what we ate, we sleep, they sleep, we shop, they shop, they joke, we laugh, we joke, they laugh...for me, the maid I hired was more like a sister and side-kick to me.
For that few years, I was dependent on her to mind-read my schedule and when I need or don't need help. She picked things up quickly and we ended up having lots of moments whereby we were in sync. Today, two of them are on my Facebook and we were gleefully chatting over Facebook Messenger since they've just discovered the wonders of the Internet and Social Media.
Since we were more like partners in crime, I f…