Tradition! Tradition!

As many of you know, we have a big tradition in our family of making gingerbread houses the weekend of Thanksgiving. My grandma started it years ago and has passed it on to my mom and I. My sisters join in occasionally but not that often. As you also know, my parents have been gone for the past two Thanksgivings. So my mom wasn't around to do houses. I did one last year by myself. But this year my sister and I decided to surprise our mom. See- she got home yesterday so she barely missed making houses. She knew when she got home she would be too busy with the holidays to bother with one so she was just not going to have one. UNacceptable.

The two of us got together and made her a surprise house, along with mine, the first weekend in December. It was there to surprise her when she got home late last night!

This one is mom's.

This one is mine.