"...it's what's for dinner!"

It's funny how lots of little events in a family's life can culmunate to one unforgetable & priceless moment. For instaIt's funny how lots of little events in a family's life can culmunate to one unforgetable & priceless moment. For instance, our family has taken many trips to 'the lake' (my mom lives on the 34 mm at Lake of the Ozarks). On one of our many trips, when Charlie was about 3 years old, we were starting to teach him how to fish, and he was excited to learn! One of the things he was a little fuzzy on, was why we catch the fish. What do we do with them, once we have them? Our response was, "We gotta eat those fish!" So he helped us to place each catch into the holding basket, for safe-keeping and we later cleaned them & cooked them for dinner, as promised. He was not disappointed! Well, after another fun weekend, we returned to our home in Lakewood, and to all the work that awaited us there. One of our projects that had been plagueing us, was trying to keep the squirrels out of our attic. They were able to squeeze into one little hole in the corner of our roof, & set up camp on the ceiling just over our bed. And those dang squirrels would be up & wrestling EARLY in the morning! Our solution was to catch the squirrels in a 'have-a-hart' trap and release them at some far-away park. One day Charlie watched us as we set up this trap, & then later we showed him how the trap caught the squirrel, unharmed. When we asked him what we should do with our catch, well, he responded as you might expect. With a gleam in his eye, he said "We gotta eat that squirrel!"