I took the day off work the other day to experiment with making mini pies with my daughters. We’re having a party later this year and we would like to serve pie, however whole pies don’t serve very many and slices of pie require plates and forks and can be messy. So mini pies it was!

We spent the afternoon experimenting with flavors, we should have tried different sizes. We spent the afternoon in conversation and cooperation. We spent a pleasant day tasting and talking and planning and just being together.

Joining us in our afternoon was my oldest grand daughter, she’s 2. She insisted over and over that “Brooke a big helper!” She rolled out her own dough, dropped it in the floor and rolled it again, we did not taste her pies! She delivered dough to the other end of the counter for one of her aunts to fill, she supervised.

It was such a simple day, spent in my sisters house, spent with my girls from 25 to 2, spent rolling dough and talking about everything and nothing. We learned from the afternoon what fillings will work and what won’t, we learned what sizes won’t work and what we would like to try next time. But the most important lesson is the one we learn over and over and is always true: we learned we love each other and enjoy spending time together.

It’s a busy world, with more activities and things to do than we can possibly imagine or comprehend. The simple task of taking a day off to make pies and conversation was not a hard choice, but a great one. Time together is never wasted, time spent learning about one another and what makes us tick is an ongoing needed task to build relationships and families.

Take a day, an hour, a phone call, write a note, say your sorry, laugh a little, have a conversation, build those relationships that should be the most important in your life. You don’t have to make pies, but its a start!