http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com Recipes, Crafts, Traditions and Musings from our house to yours Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:28:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oops, something went wrong. If you have been watching this site lately, you have probably wondered what has been happening. After all, you would expect a Christmas blog to at least have an occasional post during the Christmas season, wouldn't you? If you were at all concerned that I might ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=607 We have finally done it! Our gingerbread house is finished. Rome wasn't build in a day and neither was our gingerbread house. We actually split the work over four days this year: one each for preparing the dough, cutting and baking the walls, assembling the house and decorating it (the ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=600 You may have noticed that I never got around to the promised description of our St. Martin celebration. Time got away from me and eventually so much time had passed that it just seemed rather silly to post about it. However, fear not, I will post about St. Nicholas and ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=592 This weekend the plan was for me and the boys to bake a gingerbread house. Unfortunately, this morning I realized that though I had bought more butter at the store yesterday (no idea why; our gingerbread recipe doesn't even call for butter), I had forgotten to get more flour (and ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=590 For this week's entry to Shannon's WFMW blog carnival at Rocks in my dryer I wanted to share a special Christmas tradition our family enjoys very much. It is short, easy, and - at least for us - provides a good opportunity to feel the Christmas spirit in the middle ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=584 Family history has it that my grandparents almost got divorced about the purchase of a christmas tree in 1948. Apparently, my Grandfather kept promising to get one but kept putting it off until, on the 23rd, Grandma herself went out to buy one. They ended up with two trees (and ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=532 We've been waiting for the longest time and today it is finally here - the first day of snow. When we got up this morning (WAY too early for a Saturday morninig thanks to B) there were a good three inches of snow lying on the ground. Hurrah! It wasn't really ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=544 Yes, this post is a bit late but not as late as you may think (and you may have already noticed that I have a bit of a problem sticking to schedules - but I am working on it, honest). We live overseas and Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here. That has ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=572 Last week was so busy that I missed taking part in Shannon's WFMW blog carnival at Rocks in my dryer (and actually hardly posted anything at all!). This week isn't much better, but I am nothing if not determined, so today I present you with something that really Works-For-Me (and ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=558 I finally - with much lamenting and some late night work - got the crafts for J's school's Christmas bazaar finished. Just in time for the big day and, luckily, just in time for Antique Mommy's Blog Carnival. Now, getting these little people done was way more work than I ... http://www.christmas-at-our-house.com/?p=547