Tonda
Oak Grove Manor
1670 Crider Road
Mansfield, Ohio 44903
Attention: Allison
First published December 21, 2015
When she lived closer, she would make a gingerbread house with my oldest daughter every Christmas.
On the day we made the cookies, we didn’t have any brown sugar, and I didn’t feel like getting out of our jammies to run to the store to buy some, so instead, we made our own.
One tablespoon of molasses added to one cup of sugar makes homemade brown sugar in case you ever need some.
Ella got excited to make something from scratch that we usually buy at the grocery store.
The little things.
She said I should know all of this because “you are a photographer, mom”.
Duh.
While she was making the dough, she asked me to tell her stories about her namesake, “Grandma Ella” and about how my grandma loved to bake. There is just something about listening to Christmas music, making cookies, and talking about memories.
I might be biased but I would say those are the best-darned gingerbread men I have seen in a long time.
I thought after working all morning and afternoon on these cookies she would be tired and ask me to finish up.
Nope.
She forged ahead.
We used tube icing from the store but making your own is pretty simple too.
I find that any icing I make though turns out a bit runny so today I decided to use store-bought.
I already made my brown sugar so that was enough little house on the prairie for one day.
Little hands frosting cookies make me so happy.
Our gingerbread cookies!
Maybe you need to make some for yourself today too.
Head here for our favorite recipe.
This is such a sweet post, love the story and the photos, and those cookies look pretty yummy too! Thank you so much for linking up to Funtastic Friday, I enjoyed reading! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank you so much! Happy Thanksgiving!
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What a great project to do with your daughter! Thanks so much for sharing with Party in Your PJs!
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Thank you for visiting!
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These sound delicious! Definitely adding this into my recipe box!
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So good! Enjoy!
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Reblogged this on A Grace Full Life.
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Aw, what a sweet, sweet post! We just made some candy houses yesterday; one gingerbread from a kit and one using sugar cookies (since we aren’t gingerbread fans).
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Aww fun. ❤️
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I love this post, Kari. So much sweetness in it, of so many kinds. I have the same kind of cookie sheets, and I also have a daughter named for my grandmother (both of them, actually). What I wouldn’t give to sit in that kitchen with you and make some cookies. I hope you’re doing OK.
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I published both posts because I never have the heart to delete posts. 🙂
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I love this post, Kari. So much sweetness in it, of so many kinds. I have the same kind of cookie sheets, and I also have a daughter named for my grandmother (both of them, actually). What I wouldn’t give to sit in that kitchen with you and make some cookies. I hope you’re doing OK.
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I wish we could make cookies together. Sending you love.
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WordPress makes me do a signing in thing to post comments, and sometimes it seems to work and others it doesn’t. I am learning to copy my comments before attempting to post them, and if I’m not quite sure if it worked right, I’m going to post again! Ha! Take that, WordPress!
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😂😂
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The best kind of memories. My daughter has those memories of time with my mom and now I bake cookies all the time with her daughter; my sweet little A.
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They are the best memories, aren’t they?
I love to hear you are carrying on that tradition! 🙂
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