Our Life Lessons: Week 45 Pie Party

This week started out with Stake Conference. It was a regional conference from Canada to St Louis, Missouri and discussed ministering, Sabbath day holy, and following the prophet. The meeting was only an hour and a half. Our Stake President spoke at the beginning about how God hears and answers prayers He shared an example of how that happened for him when he was a young man.

Underfoot continues to meet his responsibility to attend Cub Committee meetings for his Den Chief responsibility. He made a commitment to help with Scouting for Food. He volunteered to bring a box to church to gather food for those neighborhoods who don't get sacks on their doors. He posted the note on the church Facebook page for our ward and is hoping that people will bring food on Sunday.

Since I have had my concussion in March and the root canal in October, I have been struggling with tinnitis. I went and saw the ENT to check and see if something else is going on. They tested my hearing and pressure in my ears. The result is that it will take a few months for the ringing to go away and learned I had near perfect hearing only a slight loss in my right ear. I also returned to the endodontist because of pain in my jaw. He placed me on a steroid and said that it will be time for the muscles to relax in my jaw.

Weekday practices have started at the school for Battle of the Books. Our first meeting was getting to know other teammates and learning the titles of the books. The children laughed and learned.

Hurricane had Pack Meeting this week. He was awarded three belt loops.

His den was in charge of a skit. During the middle of the Pack meeting their den left and planned the skit with the help of a Den Chief a.k.a. Underfoot. The skit turned out really cute about sucking the venom out at snake bite.

Our Pie Party preparations went into full swing on Thursday afternoon after getting the house organized and clean. We started making pies that evening. Sweetheart has a new toy called a sous vide. He made individual pots of New York cheesecake at night. I left for the book club to discuss "The Mountain Between Us" by Charles Martin while Sweetheart finished making a few pies.

On Friday the bulk of the pies were made.

We made some new ones this year. One is called Double Chocolate Pie - a chocolate truffle pie.

On Saturday Hurricane participated in Scouting for Food by placing the bags on doors. We finished with the last three pies. A few last minute details needed to be taken care of for the Pie Party of purchasing fresh berries and fresh vegetables. We had everything ready early and decided to take a nap before a party this year. It is a first time. This year I took time and got completely ready.

The Pie Party brought lots of fun people.

They are always amazed about the different pies out. Sweetheart's favorite dish brought was chicken strips.

We are great great book for the kitchen help that came to help us set up and clean up.

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