Winter is a hard time to be pregnant. With all the baking, friends bringing over gifts of cookies and breads, and desserts to be had, how can one formally fit girl stay that way while also growing another child.
Throw in many rainy and cold days and you get lots of baking.
One morning while working out at FIT I got the idea of making a gingerbread house from scratch, so not my normal cup of tea. I swear the most random things pop into my mind while spinning or lifting weights.
I picked the kids up from the gym childcare and whisked them off to new leaf. They were all smiles when I explained our project for the day, and the copious amounts of candy we would need to buy from the bulk section. They were on board and eager to help.
After making the dough, letting it chill, rolling it out, letting it chill, cutting out the shapes, baking them, letting them cool, making the frosting and carefully attaching each part, waiting for it to dry and solidify, and then attaching the roof, and finally "decorating" it, I was practically in tears and definitely dropping F bombs left and right (something I have until that point in my mothering life drastically cut down on)
In fact Charlie actually said to me: "So mommy...when you make gingerbread houses it is ok to use the f*$% word.
All in all it was a day long project that the kids LOVED, I grew to hate....
Charlie looks so big in this pic....
Kate, well Kate is Kate...really feeling the flow of the dough
Until it was fully consumed Charlie would say, "Mommy I love your beautiful gingerbread house" every time he saw it, which was all day long. E
We also made the most delicious cookies ever. Peppermint bark Chocolate....YUM!
We are officially on a sugar detox in this family. Charlie wakes up every morning and cries: We haven't had candy or cookies in so long.....actually sweetie we are just finishing up our first full week of no crap. From now on it is healthy scones, granola bars, and muffins....with all the baking and testing I have done this month it is a miracle I am still in my everyday clothes and haven't hit up the pile of maternity pants donated to me
1 comment:
Berk - that ginger bread house rocks. I'm ready to move in to it. (Maybe that is taking the Tiny House movement to the extreme. "Living in 500 sq. ft. was just too much space, so I moved into a 60 sq. inch ginger bread house.") I hope you are proud of yourself for a job well done.
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