Addie Kate is somewhat obsessed with gingerbread - houses, cookies, gingerbread men, whatever. Since she was a baby, I've gotten quite fond of them myself. I'm not much of a theme person, but when something reminds me of my children, I typically take off. Much of my kitchen's Christmas decor, including a beautiful new wreath my friend Jaime made, includes gingerbread.
Addie Kate and my mom made a really pretty gingerbread house Thanksgiving weekend, and we hadn't gotten around to making ours yet. We typically have a gingerbread house party, where AK invites her friends and they all make them together. A tradition I love and missed this year, due to current living situations.
It was down to the wire and our house had to get made this year, on Christmas Eve Eve to be exact. It was also the day I was recovering from the stomach virus. See below:
Mama was not feeling or looking so hot. In fact, I felt awful.
AK didn't care though.
And thankfully, she can handle 80% of it by herself now. Somewhat sad, but helpful this year!
Our friend Mrs. Sharon, whose husband often takes our children's pictures, made the house for us. Hers are so much more beautiful than the store-bought ones. They hold together better and smell divine!
I think it looked great! I love Addie's special touches:
As in an all-red gumdrop roof that Mommy was constructing, then she got ahold of the gumdrops...
She started out talking about making a "pattern" (insert proud teacher-Mommy moment) with M&M's on the roof...
but that didn't quite pan out!
Regardless, I loved building this with her, no matter how rotten I felt. I adore our little Mommy-Daughter moments.
(Let me note here that a week or so after Christmas, the gingerbread house still stood in my kitchen. I got ready to throw it away and sweet Addie got these great big tears in her eyes and said she wanted to show it to Mimi (who was about to come up and stay with us a few days while Tommy was out of town) - bless her. I quickly jumped down to her level and reassured her we wouldn't throw it away until Mimi had seen it! See - she loves gingerbread!)
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