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<\/a>A gingerbread surprise to welcome them home.<\/p><\/div>\n
Making the dough, rolling, cutting, baking, preparing icing, gathering toppings… all for a sweet surprise for my little ones. I also made salad and exercised, to somewhat balance out the sugary day. <\/p>\n
The kids were THRILLED when they came in the door! They did their after school jobs lightening quick and were decorating in no time. :)<\/p>\n
<\/a>Eve, just getting started.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lex at work.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>What a sweet table! :)<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>It got a little messy. I was really glad I thought to give them trays to work on!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Eve made a bag on her gingerbread baby. Of course, with the way she creates, by the time she was done decorating it you could no longer see the bag. :)<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Cookies galore!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>All done! It took us all afternoon, but we all had fun.<\/p><\/div>\n
We decided that we didn’t need 41 heavily decorated gingerbread cookies in our house (ok, that part was my decision!) so we packaged them up with a gingerbread poem and a holiday greeting and brought them to school this morning. <\/p>\n
<\/a>Gingerbread boys and girls headed off to school!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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