Pumpkin Pie is a Vegetable

Yes, I know, pumpkin pie isn’t the same as pizza or ketchup but it’s still a vegetable all the same.  They tell you it’s desert.  But, that’s just a trick to get you to eat your vegetables.

There are lots of tricks in the world.  I get tricked all the time.  Some of the time it’s without even knowing it and other times I just let myself believe.  I want to believe so much, so desperately, that a Shake Weight will actually make me look like a body builder or the person whose name I check in the voting booth will actually do something for me, for my family, for the people I want so much to help in my life.

Because, at the end of the day, family is something we can believe in.  Not an idealized perfection of what we’re told a family is supposed to be but the reality of what a family is; the people who show up.  The people we are with, or choose to be with, day in and day out.  The people who we love because love defines us, makes us who we are, and makes a family.

So, maybe the pumpkin pie you bought at the grocery store is more butter, flour, eggs, and cream than it is pumpkin.  And, the pumpkin in that pie is something scraped out of a can.  Or, maybe the pumpkin pie that’s on your plate is a left over jack-o-lantern, saved from melting after that first frost (or early snow) and brought inside to be roasted in the oven while still fresh so it could find a higher purpose; a vegetable-y purpose on our table.

However it got here; it showed up.  We can be glad about that.  We can know in our hearts and believe that pumpkin pie is a vegetable.

Happy Holidays