Gingerbread houses

    We threw a little gingerbread house/cookie party on saturday.  And by little, I mean the houses were little.  Effort and time spent by Mike baking and assembling the houses, as well as making all of the cookies was the opposite of little.  He was working all week last week to pull this off.  It was his idea to do the cookies, I wanted to do houses, and he ended up doing both!

  We had no plans saturday morning, so I thought I would have plenty of time to get ready for the party and take pictures of all of his cookies.  You can just about guess what happened there.  For you visual people, imagine this...  Mike found an amazing chewy gingerbread man recipe and the other two cookies were long time favorites.  So the cookies were devoured! 

    Sneaker elf was not even sneaky this time.  Just shoveled the candy into her mouth.  "Tummy hurt, so bad, Mama!"

  Somehow we managed to pull all of that off, finish all of the last-minute Etsy orders, send our Christmas cards and all of the gifts that go up North.  This time of year is insane and every year I tell myself I'm not going to do that again!  And then by the time Christmas is over I am so ready to not think about Christmas for another 11 months and the cycle continues.  I am serious about doing it different next year!!  :)

Happy Monday!