Gingerbread houses..................

In my past couple of posts I have written about Christmas memories from my childhood. Today I would like to share a more recent memory of when my girls were little.

It would be just about this time of year just after the girls would got out of school for winter break. My sister who had two boys similar in age as two of my girls would host a gingerbread house day.

My dear sister would invite my three girls, and another sisters with her two girls and of course her two boys. My sister would bake from scratch gingerbread shapes for houses for all of the children. When we would arrive. She would a place set at the kitchen table for each child. Each place setting there would be the frame to build the gingerbread house. My sister would go to the trouble to make the icing and supply all of the treats the children wanted to put on their ginger bread house. Of course such a task required assistance from mom or dad. When we first started doing this my youngest would have been about 2 or 3....so the children present ranged from 2 -10. They all just loved it. It was their own creation....they were allowed to use what ever was on the table....oh what fun....it kept them occupied for a few hours.....it was wonderful to watch. It also provided an opportunity for the adults to enjoy some time together. It was a wonderful break from the hustle and bustle of the stores.

After a long afternoon of gingerbread house making...we would order in pizza watch a movie and then head on home. My girls still talk about those years when we use to go to Aunty Eileen's and make the houses.

Ah Christmas full of memories......