Hank’s Birthday Cake
I’m still backpedalling, and I promise not to dump on this blog the veritable avalanche of ideas that I’ve been filing into the “blog” folder for the past six months as I worked up the nerve (and...
View ArticleMy Little Sugar Shack
This week I spent two evenings hunched over my kitchen counter, my face ravaged with concentration wrinkles, my throat sore from forgetting to drink water, making this gingerbread house. It turned out...
View ArticleCar Cake, Car Cake, Car Cake!
I really geeked out on this. And by the end of the night I had somehow reeled Aaron into the action, too. He was wishing he had a few chisels in the house (to notch windows or some such craziness) but...
View ArticleTemporary Housing
Some traditions are meant to be broken—quite literally in this case. When we moved back home, I’ve instituted the gingerbread house tradition, and soon after I tacked on a ritual for its demise, too:...
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