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Ever tried to eat steak without a steak knife?

Ever just used your fingers to dish something up rather than get a serving spoon dirty?

Ever gone to the garage to help take care of dogs and then gone and gotten into your bed right afterwards?

I have. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Here is a really barbaric sounding one, “Have you ever licked your glasses lenses to clean them because you have nothing else?” I was only driven the extremity twice, but like I said, you gotta do what you gotta do.

You know how when you were younger and you had something on your face your mom would say, “Here, let me get that off for you.” Then she would lick her finger and wipe cold gooey spit all over you. I have! But hey, saliva is handier than having a dirty face.

Sometimes when you are eating chips off of a napkin, or plain off of the table, you think to yourself, “This is so uncivilized. Here I am in the 21st century and I can’t even get a bowl to put my chips in. I could, but I would hate to make more dishes that need washing. And I can just throw the napkin away, so why not?”

I have often thought this, and resolved to become a bit more civilized. But when you live a down-to-earth home schooling family with 6 children, niceties aren’t always available.

This evening I was eating steak, with no steak knife(note for future children, NEVER KEEP STEAK KNIVES AROUND IN THE HOUSE, I have a story that involves little brothers that like to throw things and huge kitchen knives). We had company tonight, but he was eating in the dining room with mom and dad, and us kids were in the kitchen. I was trying to eat my steak in a “civilized” way by cutting it. Nothin’ doin’. So then my daddy came in and I asked to eat the steak with my fingers. “Sure, oh wait, do you want a real knife?” I am absent minded sometimes, especially during mealtimes, so a knife in absent-minded Gracie fingers is a dangerous weapon. “No thanks, I don’t want to cut my self.”

With permission I now tore into my steak using my fingers and teeth. And then a very consoling thought hit me,

“God created fingers and teeth before we ever invented forks and knives. And since God’s creations always work better than ours, why are we using silverware?”

Hmm…