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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Christmas Day may be past, but the celebration of Jesus is never past. Never delegated to only one day. The celebration is in our every day and our everyday.
We celebrated Christmas with our kiddos on Sunday. We usually celebrate with our little family the beginning of December, but that didn’t happen this year, because BACK SURGERY.
Renae wanted to make gingerbread men all through December and we finally managed to carry it out.
I felt I’d come full circle as I watched her mixing and stirring in my kitchen. My mind drifted through the corridors of years and found myself measuring and baking and rolling out dough on the harvest gold kitchen counters belonging to my own mother.
We had a delightful day.
Memories and music and baguettes and butter and sunshine and stockings and laughter and loafing and twilight and twinkle lights and cheese curds and chicken chili and gifts and gratitude.
In completely unrelated news, I read this post recently ~ 10 Signs You’re An Outgoing Intovert and I was amazed at how closely I related to the points in it.
Other unrelated news.
The Seven Laws of Love releases today! Find it over here on Amazon or at your favorite bookseller’s!
The Simply Tuesday e-book is available for ONLY $0.99 today! It’s a great book and a great price! AND it’s TUESDAY. Go snag one. They usually aren’t on sale for long at this price. Simply Tuesday was one of my favorite books that I read in 2015.
And you really must go check out these awesome place card holders my sister made using old books. They are fantastic and I hope to create some sometime this year!
Love all the pictures. There’s something so homey about gingerbread men. Looking back through those corridors of years with you I have to wonder how they flew by so quickly with no advance notice of the swiftness of their flight! Praise God for good memories and for even better things to come.
Gingerbread men are cheery.
Time is such a mystery.
I think it would be fun next year to use the Nativity cutters in gingerbread. The imprints show up really well in the ginger dough.