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Thursday, March 13, 2008
The difference between moms and dads
My third grade daughter is big into science. She’s also, for some reason, really interested in France. So last month she wanted to do a science fair project that was somehow also relevant to France.
I had a great idea — we could make wine! It’s actually pretty easy to do. On the Internet we found directions for how to turn ordinary grape juice into wine in just a few simple steps! I suggested she could make a photo slide show of herself making the wine, bottle some of the final product to bring in to show off and she could write up a short report on the history of winemaking in France!
About this time my wife came home and my daughter started telling her about this brillant plan we had and how she is going to make wine for her science project.
Needless to say, my smarter half pulled me aside and quietly asked — “ARE YOU COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR FREAKIN’ MIND?!?! The kid is going to bring some sort of home-concocted moonshine to her elementary school science fair and show the other kids how to make alcoholic beverages in buckets in their kitchens?!?!?”
I guess I didn’t really think of it that way at all. Needless to say, we decided to do something different for the science fair.
She made cheese from scratch instead.
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