Party Fail

Since our son started school last September there have been a few birthday parties to attend. Because everyone is new and none of them know who their friends are yet the whole year gets invited, which is great, it is good to see him socialise. We had one ourselves. Pirate Pete came along to entertain everyone and then we laid on a ship's banquet. All our party food was vegan. We didn't announce that fact, we just laid it on and nobody commented or even seemed to notice.

Last week our son went to one where parents had to just drop their kids off and leave them to it. It was Pirate Pete's girlfriend. He went, had a good time and then we picked him up. When we got home we asked him what he'd eaten. It was sausages and cake. We had forgotten to mention he was vegan and of course, being five, he just assumed that what he had been given was vegan. We had taken our eye off the ball. As far as I know that was the first time he has eaten anything that wasn't vegan.

I looked at him carefully for any signs of contamination but he didn't look any different. I felt vaguely disappointed. I remember about 10 years into being vegan I bit into and then swallowed a mouthful of meat burger I had been served by mistake. It was years ago but I still remember. I went bright red and broke into a sweat but that was probably guilt.

Will my young son and daughter be vegan when they grow up enough to choose? I hope so, but for the right reasons.

In other news: our two year daughter can't make the "qu" sound yet. She was singing 'The Ugly Duckling' yesterday. It was: "twat, get out, twat twat, get out, twat twat get out of town."