7 Quick Takes Friday: Apple Pie, Thrifting, and a Promise

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I make a mean apple pie, folks.

And by that I mean "I follow the instructions in the America's Test Kitchen Family Cokbook to the letter, using the orange zest instead of the lemon."  It is INSANELY time consuming, and almost goes against my principal of time being spent solely on useful things (I'm practical and boring like that. Thankfully my kids have my husband to make life fun).  But, the praise and yummy noises (name that show) that I receive when the pie is being eaten is enough to get me to do it anyway.

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What?!?!?!  You've never heard of the America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook???????  I don't have some snazzy Amazon account or anything, so it does me no personal good whatsoever if you buy that cookbook for yourself and every single one of your friends, except that the world will be a better, happier, more well-fed place.  Go.  Buy it now.

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Anyway, we're making the pies to take to the Halloween party we're going to this evening.  Technically we were instructed to bring a pumpkin pie, but I had apples and not pumpkin available.  Do you think I'll be in super huge trouble?  Well, whatevs.  If nobody wants apple pie, they's gonna be mo' fo' me!

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Oh, I just have to tell you about how hilarious my Lizzy is.  They set up this little puppet show stage at the school where they take their piano lessons.  While Katie was having her lesson, Lizzy put on a show for me and it was LAUGH OUT LOUD funny.  I am a total fool for filming it, although I probably would have been laughing too loud for you to hear her jokes anyway.  

Just trust me.  She is a comic genius.

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Oh, but I did take a different video this week!  Don't get too excited...

I don't even know what was so funny, but something about their goobery faces just made us all start cracking up.  This was part of our science class, b. t. dub.  We did a bunch of different things with water in glasses that day, and this was one of them.

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You know how we're the luckiest thrift store shoppers in the world, right?  Remember the table?  And the bread machine? Well, please add glider rocking chair with matching ottoman to your list of things we've scored because we got this little gem for just $4.99!

The observant reader will note that the booty cushion is missing, but never fear my friends...I have a sneaky little plan to fix that.  You just stay tuned now, ya hear?

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Finally, apparently several of my dear friends were disappointed that the dancing video I posted yesterday to accompany our joyous news was not, in fact, of ME dancing.  Mea culpa, dear readers.  So how about this:  when Tommy actually accepts an offer of employment, I will post a video of myself doing a super happy dance instead.  Bueno?  Bueno!