PIE DAY!

What is Pie Day? Why, it's the most wonderful day(s) of the year! Most people, I'm sure, spend the days leading up to Thanksgiving and Christmas preparing food and treats for the big event, but no one--and I mean no one--enjoys pie day like a Gamelin. Who else could spend 14 hours standing in the kitchen and go to bed with a look of giddy satisfaction on their face? Someone who's been making seven pies, two dozen apple cider donuts and cranberry bread pudding...that's who! Audrey helped out a lot by being generally awesome and hanging out with me in the kitchen all day. It turns out she loves eating pie dough almost as much as her Auntie Em. I can't count how many times I saw a little hand poking up over the top of the table to grab a hunk off the edge of the dough I was rolling out. I'm really looking forward to next year when she'll be able to actually help make pies...and by that I mean half-eaten balls of dough and cherry filling.

I do have to admit that the day was not all flour and giddy laughter. My Pie Day euphoria was temporarily dampened when I woke to find the Awesome Apple Pie I had painstakingly made the night before with a gaping hunk cut out of it. I will admit to having a Clark W. Griswold reaction. That's right--the Goon was the culprit and it's a good thing she was at work when I found out. I have since recovered, officially cut Elizabeth off from apple pie as a punishment and made another apple pie to make myself feel better.

Well, it's back to preparations for Turkey Day for me. We're expecting around 30 people for dinner so I really shouldn't be wasting time on the internets!