Ummmm.....Gingerbread

Today Sophie made Gingerbread cookies. She has been looking forward to cutting out her favorite shapes from the rolled dough. This year it was gnomes, elephants, horses, ginger people and big hearts. She had a hard time deciding on her favorite shape, but I believe the heart won out..."because I love you". Sophie love modeling her new apron too, she felt very grown up. And all afternoon our kitchen smelled of warm, spicy gingerbread. Yummmmm!

Rainy Morning Crafting

We have had rain for nearly a week now, with no signs of letting up. Looks like we are going to have a wet Yuletide as well. So, Sophie and I spent yesterday's long, rainy morning making some lovely holiday ornaments for our tree. She is a very good crafter, and though being four, she lost interest and I had to finish up some of them. She had her own ideas about how things should look and was very proud of her finished items. She is very excited to hang them on the tree. We just