Happy Eater

Macaroni Pizza

I wasn't raised eating a lot of beef it was always chicken and salads with pasta and Mexican food.  I do enjoy a nice steak when cooked just right and I have been know to enjoy a hamburger cooked on the grill outside.  I eat meat.  Lately my girl has been doing the meatless thing for about a month now.  She has just about always complained about the items that I cook and the smell and how it looks when being cooked.  This is just how it was. I would even let her pick what we would have for dinner.  She never had an idea of what she might want.  For years now I have been feeding her Boca burgers, they are meatless patties, when we would have hamburgers.  Recently she has made a couple of friends that are vegetarians for different reasons and I don't think my girl thought that this was an option.  I personally don't think that it has to be all or nothing, meat or no meat.  I don't think that it has to be a big deal if she wants to go without and then have chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-la.  Sure if she eats meat a true vegetarian will say that she might not be. But do we have to put a label on it?  Since I have been making meals for all of us without meat she hasn't complained.  Ok I take that back I made shrimp Alfredo last night and the smell was more than she could handle.  But really it has been so nice fixing meals and not hearing the rants about the food I am fixing.  So my girl is eating my food with happiness and she is a happy eater again and that is what I will call her she isn't a vegetarian, she is a happy eater.  She loves food!  So if you have to put a label on it you can call her a happy eater.  We support this and of course we had to do some research and make sure she is getting all the nutrients that she needs.  I don't know where this is going to go for her, but as long as she is eating and is making wise and healthy choices I am by her side all the way baby.  She knows that she can count on her family for support and it is always a bonus when your friends support the decisions that you make.  She currently is spending the night at one of her special friends and her mom just happens to be my special friend, so i know that she is always being taken care of with lots of TLC. 

That special friend

Speaking of special friends, one of mine sent me a text tonight and said that she just put something on my porch.  How exciting!!  She brought me something that we decided in one of our conversations I needed. She bought me a weekly pill box.  Simple yes and friendship is simple like that when it is good.  So thank you Jess for caring.   When my friends do these kind of things for me I always worry that I am being the kind of friend that they are being to me.  I am not always good at doing the little things, but I do hope they all know that they are special.