Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I’m guessing no one’s surprised that I only managed a Monday post last week; in addition to making pies and getting ready for Thanksgiving, our family (minus the youngest, who was too nervous) spoke in church last week, and we also managed to get our major Christmas decorations up. Busy busy! And on this past Monday I ended up taking a child into the doctor to talk about his mental state, as well as making applesauce and PTA calls. I was at the school doing things both yesterday morning and this morning, but I didn’t stay all morning, since yesterday my youngest had therapy and today I had a cavity filled. Now, however, with my lemon chicken orzo soup in the crockpot, I am finally ready to talk about Pie Night and Thanksgiving.

The short version? I ate way, way too much. And while there were absolutely games, there weren’t as many as usual–my mother-in-law was sick and went to bed early both nights. The longer version involves my oldest bringing her robotic baby (she’s in child development at school), my kids making all their pies on Tuesday with minimal help from me (the oldest helped the youngest quite a bit), and an interesting combination of fewer pies than the last few years but more pies I truly enjoyed. As far as OUR pies went, here’s the rundown:

My hubby–none. He’s been fighting a cough plus serious congestion, and he just couldn’t muster the energy.

Me–this Cranberry Pear Crumble Pie. It was SO good. It was also impressively popular.

Child #1–this Grapefruit Curd Pie with Basil Whipped Cream. The basil whipped cream was weird, but I oddly didn’t hate it by itself. I thought it made a strange combination with the pie, though; I’d have preferred conventional whipped cream.

Child #2–this Root Beer Float Pie. It was tasty and popular, even if the maraschino cherries were forgotten.

Child #3–this Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie with this Homemade Oreo Pie Crust. He garnished it with Oreos, Brownie Brittle, M&Ms, and whipped cream.

Child #4–this Blue Raspberry Kool-Aid Pie. She garnished it with crushed blue raspberry Dum-Dums and fresh strawberries, and she and her sister mixed an individual Starburst Blue Raspberry drink packet into the whipped cream before folding it in. I could only find a Blue Raspberry Lemonade Kool-Aid packet, but she said that was good!

And there they are, folks! I have multiple books that need reviewing, of course, and yet I’m not sure I have both a Pie post and a book review in me today. Maybe tomorrow? In the meantime, I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. Christmas, here we come!