4 burns and an hour and a half later...

 

PIE
Definition
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pie [ pī ]
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pies Plural
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NOUN
1.
baked food with pastry: a baked dish consisting of a filling
such as chopped meat or fruit enclosed in pastry and usually cooked in a container
2.
divisible whole: something regarded as a resource to be shared or divided up
"Our competitors are always looking for a larger piece of the overseas pie."

[ 14th century. Origin ? ]

pie in the sky something described very attractively that is not likely to happen or materialize

 

I have had these peaches in my fridge now for weeks. All I wanted to do with them is make a simple pie but life kept getting in the way. I would work all day or the house needed cleaning or I didn't have the prober ingredients to make the pie. what it came down to was excuse after excuse.

Finally today I went into my kitchen got out my moms recipe and started to bake. I preheated the oven and then went onto cutting the peaches adding the sugar and so forth until I smelled what I thought was burnt plastic... I look toward my oven only to see smoke pouring out of it. I hurried and ran and opened the oven door to see my sons plastic toys melting all over my oven.

Wyatt has had this obsession lately with cooking. he will go into the kitchen and open the oven door (yes its turned off when he does this...) and proceeds to "cuook" I haven't really thought of this being a real big deal.

  {taken with my cell phone a month prier.}

I kind of of thought it was adorable. until today.

now I could of gotten mad at him and put him in time out but instead I just calmly turned the oven off and stuck Wyatt in the kitchen sink and proceeded to clean the oven.

this was no easy task. the plastic was EVERY where! I finally had to burn off the remaining pieces which made my house stink. every window was open and all the fans on full blast as my pie sat and waited to be cooked.

what made it easier though was listening to Wyatt sing and play with the water in the sink. the sound of his voice calmed me and allowed me to let it go...

Now regardless of "THE PLASTIC TOY MELT DOWN 2010"  this pie that i kept putting off finally made it to the oven after an hour and a half of cleaning it and getting four very painful burns in the process.

But Oh how I love a good peach pie.

 

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