The Daily Hailey

Dekker loves to speculate. Yesterday, over supper, he asked

“What would happen if you put a whole apple into water and boiled it? Would it change?”

A solid question, don’t you think?

I told him it would get soft, and you could mush it up and make it into sauce. Thats how apple sauce is made, I told him. We talked about how most people would cut it up first, and how a whole apple would soften on the outside faster than the inside. We talked about mixing other stuff into the apple sauce, like blueberry apple sauce. It was a whole conversation.

Laele was very quiet during the conversation, which isn’t like her. She always nods along and adds her piece where she can. But she was oddly quiet. Finally she looked over at me with her concerned eyebrows on, and asked

“An owl?”

If you were to go back now, and consider the initial question, but rather with an owl…

“What would happen if you put a whole owl into water and boiled it? Would it change?”

😳

Yes. Yes, I think it would.

The conversation got a little dark from there, but it was also kind of hilarious. I like that Laela can laugh at herself when she makes a mistake. I always felt so attacked and offended when I made mistakes and people would laugh at my expense. I like that Laela is more easy going than I was as a kid 🙂

Let’s be real here, though. Don’t boil owls. Thats the true moral of the story.

🦉