The Apple Pie Elections

This thanksgiving I'm spending it when Brians family. It's not the first thanksgiving I've been away from home and it probably wont be the last.

My family are really big pie eaters. More then I think any other family. I think it's a farm thing, my papa was a farmer, and I've never met a farmer who hated pie. We make our pie crust from scratch with an evil ingredient that would have the organic hippies dying just by looking at it. (No offence). The pie has many particular steps to make sure it comes out right, and for whatever reason if the crust isn't made in my moms kitchen it just doesn't come out right. I think it's because I still need her advice on things but dont tell her that. Also some how when ever I make it there are always tears, that doesn't depend on the kitchen, thats just a given. Either it's too soft or too hard, somebody pokes me and I drop an extra egg in (hubbsters did that last time) or I'm frustrated because somebody is in the kitchen telling me how to make my pie. I realize I'm only 21 but I've been making pie for a REALLY long time (last thanksgiving at a friends house with an over protective grandmother).

This year?

Well I'm not sure. I think I'm tired and I think I miss home.

But something I've learned being a college student being 1000 miles away from home

Home is anything. I learned to live at home in the dorms. At the friends house with the over protective grandmother. And here, at my in-laws. (which by the way I hate that word because people usually mean it negatively and it's not for me) I have great in-laws and I feel at home with them.

So right. Pies.

My FIL always makes the apple pie. I guess it's his thing. Guess who is making it this thanksgiving. THIS GIRL. yeah. crap is right. Not only is it a test of my woman hood, but it's like a family acceptance test. I'm not sure WHO elected me or HOW I got elected to make this pie. It's like the holy grail of thanksgiving dinner, well that and pumpkin. ANYWAY. This is my first thanksgiving with brians family EVER. last year we weren't even dating. SO it's like double test. I'm not really nervous just a new experience.

So this is my first wife thanksgiving. Complete with tears and apple pie tests. I'll let you know how it comes out. Right now, I'm just praying for it (no but really)

thats all for now. (i think)
-j