Laowai

The girls and I made our gingerbread houses on Thanksgiving. I’m thankful that I have the time to enjoy making the houses. I feel like I finally have the hang of all the recipes and techniques for the gingerbread and frosting and that makes me so happy. And I’m thankful I have two daughters that get (almost) as excited as I do about traditions like this. We cranked up the Christmas music and worked on our houses for a long time. Bea loves to make an over the top crazy house. Claire loves to make things out of candy and little stories for who lives in the house. I just love doing lots of piping and watching my girls create. Next week we’re having friends over to decorate gingerbread men. So I’ll be using some of my precious molasses again. It’s all precious – the molasses and the time with my girls.