Pre-Pie Night Pie Night

I am getting in full on Pie Night mode!  Our 5th Annual Morrison Family Pie Night is two nights away!  I will share those pics soon!

But I have already done one Pie Night this year that I haven't posted about. However someone was asking where the post was about this other Pie Night, so here it is.

Now - I have hesitated to share this for obvious reasons.  We had a theme.  This was for certain people.  Certain people that I highly respect and appreciate who have endured a great deal of criticism and abuse, especially over the last 3 months here in Ferguson.  But those very same people are not highly respected or appreciated by others.  And so others won't find our theme to be smile worthy.  Others might use the word "offended" after seeing our theme.

Where do you land?  On the smile side? Or the offended side?

No matter where you may land the people that were the invitees and honorees for this Pie Night liked our theme.  They got a much needed smile and chuckle from our theme.

I must give credit where credit is due.  I did not come up with our theme.  About a month ago, P asked me how come she hadn't heard anything about Pie Night this year.  My response was - cause Ferguson....G and I weren't sure whether we would have Pie Night.  Almost immediately P responded: " Hands Down!  We Want Pie!"

And an idea was born!  So I started working with a police officer and fire captain to arrange a Pie Night appreciation event for our local Ferguson 1st Responders.  We got help on the signs from P and her peeps, music (our Pie Night Song plus songs about Pie!) from my friend, S, and pies made from my daughter, S, so we had a total of 40 pies, 13 of which were personal pies for 1st responders to take home and share with their families.

I'm not sure that they had any idea what Pie Night was really all about, but they liked it just the same!

Our hope was that the officers and 1st responders would feel loved and blessed and supported by a few folks.  At least for one night.  And I think that they did.

One last thought - I made 6 fruit pies that had our theme.  I would have done more, but it took a LOT of time to cut 6 of each of these letters, glue them to the tops of the pies with beaten egg and then paint them to brighten the letters.  

Do you know how to paint letters like this?  All you do is add gel food coloring to a beaten egg yolk and paint it on the unbaked dough  Easy, yes.  But fast?  Not always.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm NOT complaining about the time involved.  Not at all.  I wish I could have done more this way, but I want to simply be honest about the time involved should you want to replicate this idea for words like "We Love You" or "Happy Birthday" or "Congratulations!" on a pie sometime.

I haven't decided what words I am going to put on our pies two nights from now...hmmmm....

Happy Pre-Pie Night!