On the phone with mum.

I talk to my mum on the phone once a week for a weekly update. She tells me what's happening home and I tell her what I'm doing here in Berlin.
As soon as mum doesn't have anything to say or can't think of something more to say she says: Är det något annat du vill berätta? For non Swedish speakers that means Is there something else you want to tell me?
My mum trusts me that I will tell her if something is up or new, which I do. This is a way better tactic then my dads three questions he starts every phone call with.

1. Are you busy?
2. How are you?
3. Do you have a boyfriend?

When I write it  it looks like a joke, and I wish it was but no, that's my dad.
Anyway, back to mum. I talked to her last week. We talked about brother Tim, about other people in my hometown, about New York and so on. Then the question comes Is there something else you want to tell me?
I could easily said no, but instead I say:
- I started to live vegan.
- Vegan? What's that?
- I don't eat anything that comes from animals, like milk and honey.
- But Jennita (I have a Spannish native speaker mum so diminutive is something she uses when it comes to me and my brother) , what if you get pregnant?

That this is the question that pops in to her mind after saying I'm vegan was the least I expected. I get it. She wants grandchildren but still. Mum is a doctor so anything, any little thing that can have to do with my health she need to say something about.
I calmly explain to her that if I got pregnant, a vegan diet would be the least of my worries.
We talked some about diets, eating habits and the environment, basically mum trying to make sure I'm healthy. I kind of felt like I had do defend myself, which is fine since I have to do that almost every time it comes up.
We hung up and I know that mum told dad and he went something like Det är väl onödigt/That's unnecessary and think that I was to extreme, which he has been thinking since I stopped eating meat.
Parents. They are a special kind of people, at least mine. Tonight is the weekly update from mum. What she says today is yet a mystery.