A Christmas Tradition

 

Families everywhere have holiday traditions that enrich the lives of their children.

One tradition in my own family is decorating homemade gingerbread houses.

We have done this for many decades.

                                                                                                                                                               Some years there was hardly any money for candies to put onto the house but we somehow managed to scrape enough together to do it.

The dollar stores have always been  good places to find small bags of candy that would enable us to have a good variety.

If candies are left from Halloween, we use those, too.

Last year, there was not enough time to make the houses from scratch so we bought a gingerbread kit in a box. 

It turned out to be a real disaster and made the local grands yearn for the homemade variety.

This year, when my newly teenage granddaughter said, "Grandma, can we decorate a gingerbread house this year?,"  my heart said "Yes, yes, yes."

So dough for two houses was mixed, spread, baked, and cut into shapes of roofs, sides, fronts and backs of houses.

The kids had a blast decorating the gingerbread creations. 

Once I'm gone from this earth, the kids will surely remember decorating gingerbread houses with Grammie!