Part Vampire?

Garlic anyone?

Sometimes you gotta learn your lessons the hard way, you know?

I'm not certain Craig has ever learned a lesson the easy way.  However, some people are just like that.  I'm one of them. 

I refuse to just take your word for it.  I need to try it.  If you tell me something won't work, I will try it out just to prove you wrong.  And - sometimes I find that people were wrong.  It actually WILL work!  And then other times I find out that people (my parents) actually knew what they were talking about.  [sigh]

Craig got a little of this tenaciousness in his sweet spirit.  So, last night when he decided to "help" me cook dinner, I knew there were would be an adventure somewhere in there.  He didn't disappoint.

I put him in charge of the stinky job - peeling garlic.  He LOVED it.  He is all boy and he loves garlic to boot!  So, I asked him to peel me 3 garlics and he peeled me 5 telling me all the while that he felt like if 3 was good, 5 would be even better.  (Thankfully we were making spaghetti so his reasoning was pretty spot on.)

When we had chopped up the garlic and added it to the meat, he noticed there was an extra clove left on the counter.

"Mommy, can I eat this?"

I informed him that he wouldn't like it.

Notice I didn't say no?

"But, can I eat it?"

I told him that it tastes terrible when it isn't cooked.

"But, I can eat it, right?  I'm going to eat it."

To which I replied, "You might better have a glass of water ready."

I'd like to tell you it ended pretty.  However, you've probably tasted raw garlic.  You know the bite it has.

Craig now knows as well.