The time it was three french hens

Three french hens.  Really? It's starting to become quite the bird sanctuary.  Day three of the 12 Days of Christmas is here!!

Today the amazing Cristin Terrill is here to share a funny Christmas story that involves pie.  Let's welcome her, yes?

Around Thanksgiving, a friend gave my grandmother a cherry pie. My grandmother -- who, incidentally, had terrible eyesight -- was a very meticulous woman, and so she immediately wrapped the pie up in paper towels, put it in a Ziploc, and placed it in the freezer.  She eventually forced my uncle to take the pie home. He kept it in his freezer for a while but finally convinced my dad to take it off his hands because he was trying to give up sugar and didn't want the temptation.

My dad put it in HIS freezer, and it stayed there until we were on our way to a Christmas party with my stepmother's family and realized we didn't have anything to bring with us. Then we remembered, the pie! We took it out of the freezer and took it to my step-aunt's house where she sat it on the counter to thaw. When it was still rock-hard several hours later, we unwrapped the paper-toweled, Ziploc-ed pied and discovered it was made of porcelain.

My grandmother's friend had given it to her as an early Christmas present to go with the many porcelain fruits she used to decorate her kitchen. It has been passed around the family for over a month, and we never knew. It was very disappointing, because we were all looking forward to finally eating the thing!

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Huge thanks to Cristin for taking the time to share this hilarious story! Make sure you're following her on Twitter, liking her Facebook page, subscribing to her blog and adding all of her books on your GoodReads shelves.

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