My husband had the sweetest grandmother I have ever known! Mona Weakly loved the Lord and loved people. I frequently received hand-written letters in the most beautiful cursive I have ever seen! She wrote of her simple life and what was happening in her world with such love and care. She loved me like I was her own granddaughter.

Grandma Weakly, as we called her, was an incredible cook, always ready with fresh-baked cookies on hand for visitors. She ate sugar every single day and somehow managed to stay thin and live to be 95 years old! Her Pumpkin Pie recipe is the most delicious I have ever had in my life, and the crust is super simple. I can’t wait to see Grandma in heaven someday to give her a big hug!

GRANDMA WEAKLY’S PUMPKIN PIE

By: Deb Weakly & Mona Weakly

Ingredients:

1 large can (29 oz) Libby’s Pumpkin
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1⁄2 Tbsp cinnamon
1⁄2 tsp salt

3 Tbsp flour
1 large can evaporated milk (12 oz)
1⁄2 cup milk
2 Tbsp half and half

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Beat eggs until fluffy.
3. Add remaining ingredients.
4. Pour into Grandma’s Press-in-the-Pan Pie Crust (see recipe on the next page).
5. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes then lower the oven temperature to 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
6. Cool before eating.

PRESS-IN-THE-PAN PIE CRUST

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
1⁄2 cup oil
2 Tbsp milk or half and half

Directions:

1. Mix well and press thinly into the pie pan.
2. Pre-bake in pre-heated oven for 5 minutes at 400 degrees.
3. Add filling and continue to bake the pie according to directions.

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Deb Weakly

Co-founder at Help Club for Moms

My name is Deb Weakly and I helped create the Help Club for Moms with one goal in mind: to create a community in which moms help moms to know the love of Christ. My own childhood was difficult and filled with sadness. I didn’t grow up in a Christian home, so when I became a Christian (and soon after, a mom), I had no idea what I was doing; I didn’t know what it meant to raise Christ-centered kids, but I so desperately wanted to learn.

I remember going into my daughter's room night after night and kneeling beside her bed and crying my heart out to God because I didn’t know how to be a Christian mom; I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. You know what? God is so faithful! He answered me and simply said, “Spend time with me, Deb.” And so I did. I began arising 15-30 minutes earlier each day so I could read my Bible and pray, and plan out my day with my family.

If there was one thing I would love to share with you is that God is personal and loves you as you are. You don’t have to be perfect to be loved by our amazing God! Come as you are! His loving presence can be practically known and experienced. He is not a God who is far away, He is near and easily found. He longs for you to come to Him!

Randy and I have been married for 33 years and we have two grown children, Christie, and Jack, and one answer to prayer son-in-law named Alex. And now I get to be a Gigi to my sweet little grandbabies, Aspen and Skylar, and Piper. Yay!

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