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 […]
Christmas
Christmas morning! This morning my sister and I made yummy breakfast. There’s really not much else to add to that, except maybe to say…yum. Happy Christmas! ~M.R.Berry
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 […]
There are certain holiday films that have become so much a part of my Christmas tradition, that it almost doesn’t seem like a holiday if I don’t watch them. I know I’m not alone in this feeling; for example, I have some friends who are unwavering observers of their Lord […]
It is in fact one day closer to Christmas. The fact that I didn’t countdown yesterday, didn’t seem to slow this fact in the least. Time is marching on. Speaking of marching (or marching-esque activites) on a walk today I discovered yet more evidence of merriment all around in […]
I actually don’t remember making a real gingerbread house when I was a kid. I think I might have crafted something out of marshmallow goo and graham crackers once or twice…but for whatever reason we didn’t get around to making the gingerbread house of actual gingerbread. Don’t get me wrong, I never […]