Please Pass The Humble Pie

Brad is reading the girls a story in the evenings, Rush Revere...it is historical fiction, but takes them through different time-periods in American history.  It highlights the Pilgrims and, even mentions by name, my famous relatives who arrived on the Mayflower, the Billington (my maiden name) family.  You may be thinking that is really cool that I have ancestors who came to the New World on the Mayflower...and so did I...until one Thanksgiving in college:)

I was dating a guy who's last name was Atkinson and he also had Mayflower heritage.  His family had invited me to spend Thanksgiving with them (how quaint, right?! Two descendents of the first families to America dating each other....SWEET! ) and his grandma was going to be visiting from out of town.  She was a history buff and had studied about the Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and the first Thanksgiving in depth.  So, we all sat down to say grace and she said to me right off, "Did you know the Billingtons were the first family off the Mayflower to receive capital punishment for a crime?"  NO, I DID NOT....HAHAHA...I shouldn't have laughed about that, but that was soooo different than what I had pictured in my mind of my famous Pilgrim relatives!  The statement totally shocked me.  The ambiance surrounding that meal definitely changed after that comment...and suddenly I felt like a criminal....somehow needing to answer for the crimes of my ancestors...and coming up with nothing, but "is that so?" actually, there was awkward silence and no one really knew what to say after that...except "could someone pass the potatoes ?" :)

But, I laugh about that awkward moment a little bit every Thanksgiving :)... OH, the fond memories!

Oooooo..This humble pie looks like Strawberry Rhubarb....:)

YES, embarrassing, but, it was all true...I checked it out later...the Billingtons were the troublemakers in the colony and John Billington was even hanged for murder...YIKES!  So, there went my ROMANTIC NOTIONS of being able to say with great pride, "My family can trace our ancestry back to the Mayflower!"

Is it any better a la mode?