at this house

At this house

things like this happen . . .

We bake gingerbread cookies with joy and enthusiasm.

Eager to get to shaping and cutting out our gingerbread people.

Only to realize a few minutes later

that the recipe calls for the dough to sit in the freezer for over an hour.

Once that hour passes, children step up to the butcher block,

less eager

and with no desire to plow through multiple cookie cutting sessions.

Which means that we ended up with

one dozen adorable gingerbread boys and Christmas trees

and two dozen gingerbread blobs.