gingerbread houses

The 2011 Gingerbread Festival

I got the call at 5 a.m. yesterday: “Can you be a judge at our gingerbread contest?” A judge at Easter Seals Hawaii’s Gingerbread Festival had dropped out, and they needed someone to take their place. What is this Gingerbread…

Preferring the imperfect Christmas

In this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, there was an article by Holly Robinson about the perfect Christmas.Actually, it was more about how the perfect Christmas isn’t the one we tend to remember, yet it’s something we strive for.We desperately…