Every year on the night before thanksgiving all the "Jolley girls" get together to make all of the pies for Thanksgiving Day. This has been a tradition since all of us have gotten married. This year Lisa stopped by for dinner, but ended up leaving before the pie making got started and Suzanne came at around ten o'clock when she got off work. My mom and I started at around six o'clock. We have all gotten pretty good at making our own pies with a few simple tricks from mom. Handle your dough as little as possible and ice water. Our pie making adventure gets complicated only because of the number of pies that we make this year our grand total was 11 (along with 6 or seven mini pies for the grandkids), which was less than last year, but still a definite undertaking. Everything went really smooth. Other than baking a couple of crusts that weren't supposed to be baked and putting the wrong filling in a couple of Suzanne's pie crusts we actually did pretty good. It is better than the year that we doubled the salt in the recipe. Anyways we got all of them made and we got to bed about two o'clock. What fun and boy were they good! This tally doesn't include the cake and brownies that Lisa and Jeremy made. Do you think we all have a sweet tooth? Just in case you're wondering what the picture of the clock is all about. Cody and Dad were watching "The Bad News Bears" for the second time that night. It was almost 1:30 a.m. and they couldn't turn it off, even though they had already watched it that night.
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Look at you being such a good homemaker! What a fun tradition! How are your parents doing? I hope they are well.
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