We have never hid from Ivy any of the realities of the farming and hunting that we do.

Ivy also loves pink, princesses, dresses, sparkles and anything else fancy and girly.

The combination has made for some interesting times…

It’s one thing for her to be helping her Great Gramps track a deer in the woods.  Tracking a deer with her imaginary friend Belle who is wearing camo coveralls over her pretty yellow dress, that’s an Ivy special.

Pretending to go hunting I don’t think is an odd activity for a girl who has been exposed to so much hunting herself. But when she is dressed in a pink dress with her pink six shooter cap guns, it’s just funny.

Then of course there was the time we ate Rudolph.

So I shouldn’t be so surprised and amused anymore when my girly girl tells me things like:

“Want to hear about my fairy song?
First they go flying, and then they kill stuff.”

But I am.