Can't walk, but watch her climb!

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Wintry thoughts

As I frosted the gingerbread house, and the frosting squirted out of the pastry bag, I had this wierd flashback to my childhood. I realized that there is an actual sound that frosting makes when it comes out of the bag, and it brought me back to when my mother would decorate cakes with the star shaped tip, and make that very sound. The smell of the frosting she always used is so clear, as well as the little dots of it she would put on each of our fingertips, and on our tounges if we were lucky.

I've also been thinking about snow. I miss it so much that it aches. It aches even more when Jed asks when it is going to snow. I have to answer, "It's probably not," because I've just got to leave room for a miracle. When you tell anyone in New England that you miss the snow, they act as if you're crazy. "I hate shoveling!... and driving in that stuff!...bah!" they'll reply. I think maybe they've just lost at bit of that childlike awe of staring at the silent world outside the window as white flakes gently collect on the frozen ground. Or maybe it's just a simple case of not truely appreciating what you've got 'till it's gone. Or maybe they all fluctuate between the anger and awe. Yeah, that's probably a bit more like it.

Gingerbread trauma

Having a bad day. Get the whole house (without decorations) assembled. The perfectionist realizes the overhang of the roof is overhanging on the back, not front. Proceed to slide the roof a bit to the left, crack one of the roof panels in half. Tell son what happened. Son cries. Glue the cracked roof with frosting. Use cardboard to support cracked roof. Reassemble roof. Looking good. Let dry for a while. Tell son it's okay, he can start decorating. Leave to use restroom. Hear son crying. Run into room to see the uncracked side of roof sliding miserably off entire house. Take entire roof off. Fix cracked side of roof again, and let dry. Put other half of roof back on. Walls start falling apart. Reassemble walls with ALOT of frosting. Let dry for a few hours. Put roof back on. Use small tupperware cups to hold up the roof just incase it decides to slide. Accidently push in one of the walls with one of the cups. Try to figure out how the heck to fix this without removing roof. Figure it out. No frosting left for decorations. Let dry overnight and until the next afternoon. Use canned frosting for decorations. IT WORKS! Praise the Lord. Yell at son every time he thinks about going near it. Take pictures before the whole thing falls.

One cute bugger