Here it is another week, how quickly they seem to come. Had Bible Study and dinner with friends last night and came home with a most beaautiful chandelier, which our hosts gave to us, since they had bought a new one for the house they have just completed.
So now, the trick will be to see how I can talk Randy into getting up in the attic and wiring this new addition to our family, so we can proudly display another new light. I have to tell you that our house is known in every neighborhood we live as the house that competes with the airport as to who has the most lights. One Christmas, Randy actually ran (I know you cannot believe that he moved that fast, and you are right, he walked fast)into the bedroom, waking me up with these words, “OMGosh, Noel, an airplane just tried to land in our front yard.” Now, that brings me to another story that you will be finding out soon enought. The day after Thanksgiving each year, Randy and I become Frosty and Noel for the Christmas Season. We always have a little Christmas poem on our answering machine and it just seems to help get us in the Christmas spirit and also, drives our children crazy!. It is just another way we find to completely embarrass them, which get’s easier and easier. So back to my day yesterday, I spent the entire afternoon squeezing lemons to make the Eagle Brand Pie (3 of them) which, I can tell you is alot of squeezing. A little over an hour’s worth. But the pies turn out great and I take them to the dinner. We were enjoying them after having dined on lasagna and Susan, one of the ladies there says, “this pie is great, it reminds me of one I grew up on. It had Eagle Brand Milk and it was just so good”. When I asked her if it was just like this one with the egg yolks and lemon juice, she replied that theirs didn’t have any eggs, just frozen lemonade and cool whip. So when I received the recipe from her, I couldn’t believe it. I had spent hours making 3 pies and hers was the same and takes only about 15 mins. So I made 4 more of the pies today using her recipe and it was a breeze. No wrinkled hands from all the lemon juice trying to be extracted from the lemons. So am sharing Susuan’s recipe with you. It is amazing how good and light and yummy it is. In fact, let’s call it, “Yummy Lemon Pie” That says it all! Go under desserts for the recipe.
Chocolate Castles 