Try Try Pie (It IS a good title June!)

In my church everyone works. There are no paid jobs, just lots of volunteers. The good news is, they can't fire you if you do a crappy job (the bad news is the no pay thing j.k.). Anyway, my job is to do educational or spiritual activities with a group of ten year old girls. It's called "activity days" --brilliant name I know. Tia's one of them, so that's nice. When we were planning the year, I thought, November: we could teach them how to make pies! What a great idea. We have 8 girls in our group. WHAT WAS I THINKING! I wish I had had that floor drain and fire hose installed when it came to clean-up time, but it could have been worse. One girl dumped an entire raw pumpkin pie down her cute outfit, and I won't get into all the raspberries... (I know. Who's bright idea was raspberry pie?). I had butter dough (ONLY BUTTER in my pies) and flour worked into every crack and crevice of our kitchen. But you know what? They each turned out a semi-respectable pie. Especially for the first time. I avoided pies for years, because I was so intimidated by them. Hopefully none of these girls will do that now. They've already done it once now right? I was so proud of them. There are also a couple of the girls that can get a little hyper and careless on occasion, but they seemed to really be the naturals. Go figure. Anyway, other than the clean-up it was a pretty good activity. At least I can't be fired right?

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