A Nightly Habit

Will you have pie with ice cream on top

or on the side?

I don’t really know when we began this routine. It may have been when the kids were little and we’d have our dessert after we tucked them in at night.

These days we often do our separate things together in the evenings. He might do some yard work, I might water flowers. He might work on some plans he brought home from work and I might work on some aspect of my photo hobby. Sometimes we have company, sometimes we go and see our Moms. Often we go for a long walk, a nice 2 or 3 mile brisk walk, aka a sprint by one dear family member.

But every night about an hour before we go to bed, we unwind in the most predictable fashion. He makes coffee, I get out dessert and we sit down for some good HGTV or an episode of our favorite (TV series) season. Okay, so it's not always pie, maybe fruit with ice cream or yogurt or some cookies.
You say dessert before bed? Yes and real coffee, please - and then we go and sleep like babies. Actually I don't know where that term comes from because we don't wake up and cry at night, but you get the idea. I know this is not normal for our age, so you may want to check back with us in a few years.

Click here for the pie recipe. Surprise someone special tonite and don’t tell them that you got the idea from a blog.