tradition

2013 house: resplendent with minions

I have a friend who every year, for the past ten years, has hosted a gingerbread house decorating party.  It's a cool tradition.  She makes thirty houses by hand, buys about two hundred dollars worth of candy, spends three days making all kinds of yummy food and invites friends and family over to decorate.

After dinner the kids decorate their houses.  (They eat about as much candy as they use to decorate.  Maybe more.)  When the kids are sent downstairs to watch a movie, the adults cram around the tables to decorate houses of their own.  A bit of friendly competition then ensues . . . .


Yes, for those of you wondering, Stealth Panda was quite peeved to not be invited.  But I'll save a minion or two for him to eat.  In the holiday spirit, of course.