Tag: Christmas

Gingerbread 7.0

My sister and I first started our gingerbread house tradition in the Christmas of 2003. The year before my friend Allison (of the curious cupcake) and I, had made my first ever homemade gingerbread houses from scratch. Not the little kits you buy and decorate, but the kind where you slave for hours in the […]

Christmas Eve: T'was the Night Before Christmas & other Christmas preparations

It’s my first Christmas not being in the great MO.  Thankfully I was lucky enough to get some actual Christmas time with my parents last weekend and so even though everything is different on Christmas proper, it’s still been pretty holly jolly.  Friday I made Challah (as my bro-in-law calls it, Holly Challah….) And in a somewhat […]