Spoooooky House

One of my mom’s favorite activities in retirement has got to be baking--- hands down. Well that and running around like a teenager with her girlfriends. Little Bella and Via are loving her success with the culinary arts and eat any mistakes she makes along the way. The holidays only make this perpetual sugar intake rise for the little minions and reaches sky high limits. My poor mother just doesn’t understand why they run around like crazy people all day. Um… really mom? After last Halloween we found this gingerbread house in the clearance isle at the Wally World. Expiration date 1/1/14. Sweeeet. So it has lived in mom’s deep freeze for the past few months and has now emerged proudly and ready to be decorate at the kitchen table. The funny thing about frosting is the fact that the more vibrant it is, the more dye it takes to make it that way. Long story short… frosting stains your skin (face included). So those little black mustaches we thought were so funny… not so much for the next 24 hours… we looked insane for sure.