Disappointment

We have been so blessed to have a few members of our church family bring us some meals over the last week. They have all been delicious and Joash has tried most of them.

One of the meals we received earlier this week was a beef pot pie. Joash saw the pie plate and asked me what it was. I told him it was for supper.

"We going to have pie for supper?" he asked. You see, Joash, like his mom, has quite the sweet tooth. And, like his dad, pie is probably his favorite dessert of all.

So, I said, "Yes, we are having pie for supper." I hoped this would lead to Joash eating a lot for supper.

When Wilbert came in for supper, Joash ran up and shouted, "We having pie for supper!"

There was no fight to get him into his chair to eat this meal. We prayed and Wilbert started to scoop the pie. Joash asked for his piece and Wilbert put some on his plate.

Joash quickly saw this didn't look like a pie he was used to. He poked it. He studied it. He smelled it.

"It smells like supper," he said rather disappointedly.

"It is supper," we told him. But this was not the pie he was expecting.

He did eat some, but he may now be leary of pie for supper.