Nibble, Nibble, Part II

This is the finished gingerbread house. They couldn't wait, so the little mousekins began nibbling right away on the edges of the roof. It was fun to watch them get all creative with Skittle paving stones, gumdrop "trees", and gummmi bears in the back yard.

It rained all day today. I went to Curves, then spent the rest of the day baking cranberry bread and cranberry bars, and downloading Christmas music from iTunes. Daughter is supposed to bake date bars and an apple pie sometime between now and bed time. If she does it, that will be a good trick, because the same span of time is assigned to dinner, watching "Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott, and going to Midnight Mass. Ah, how the energy and optimism of youth is wasted on the young!