I never liked peas as a kid, but then again, the only “vegetables” I liked were potatoes and ketchup. I blame the school lunches, which I never ate b/c we packed our own, but the green beans were overboiled and almost brown, and the carrots a pile of orange mush. I had all sorts of techniques at home for avoiding veggies at the dinner table, some of which my sister still likes to describe. If I were drinking milk that night, or some other opaque drink, I would deposit the veggie from my mouth into the cup and later toss that in the garbage when I cleared my plate. Often I would put the veggie in my mouth, then place it in a napkin when I wiped my mouth; later I flushed it down the toilet to get rid of all evidence. Sometimes I could hide them in something else on the plate that was going to get discarded. If it was at the end of dinner, I would hide the veggie in my mouth until it was time to get up. All of these were performed with a sweet sense of victory. Such is the slightly conniving child I’ve always been. Actually, I prefer the term “resourceful”!
I’ve matured into a vegetable-loving adult, and now I’m the one sending my parents veggie recipes, making my own salad dressing, and growing a veggie garden out of my windowboxes. And crocheting up peas in a pod! I’ve always liked the phrase, “you’re two peas in a pod.” Well, unless it’s someone I’d rather not be hanging out in the same pod with! And then in college, my friend Michi (a girl) and I walked by the upscale maternity store A Pea in the Pod on Newbury in Boston, and fell in love with it the way maternally-inclined women do.
Click below for the peas in a pod pattern!
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Shaydee313
24 Jan 11:51
awwwww how cutee :D
queenfairypants
11 Feb 18:10
this is so good! thank you very much for the pattern!
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