{"id":2902,"date":"2013-12-17T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:45:01","slug":"350365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/2013\/12\/17\/350365\/","title":{"rendered":"350\/365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-16-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2903\" alt=\"12-16-13\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-16-13.jpg?resize=575%2C419\" width=\"575\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-16-13.jpg?w=575 575w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-16-13.jpg?resize=300%2C218 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Gingerbread House<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My sisters and I started a tradition of making gingerbread houses when I was in college. \u00a0I think we made them every year for 4 or 5 years, and then we all got married and had kids and the whole thing became a lot harder to pull off. \u00a0But they were works of art! \u00a0Well, maybe just works of love. \u00a0But either way, a tremendous amount of fun and a great project to work on over the Christmas break. \u00a0I specifically remember being up late putting the finishing touches on a carport. \u00a0And then there was the year that we tried for glass windows and they caved in on themselves. \u00a0One of the really enjoyable parts of the gingerbread house creation was its destruction. \u00a0Can you think of any more exciting end to all that work than burning it to the ground?! \u00a0We couldn&#8217;t either. \u00a0I think I have Sarah to thank for that one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This year I started thinking about Christmas traditions I&#8217;d like to start in our family. \u00a0Gingerbread house making came to mind immediately. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t manage to bake the pieces this year, which at first made me feel bad and a little bit like a slacker mom. \u00a0I stay at home for goodness sake! \u00a0Shouldn&#8217;t I have time to make a gingerbread house from scratch all while wearing pearls and having my hair in pin curls? \u00a0I guess I&#8217;m just not that good! \u00a0The truth is, I am getting better at prioritizing (I am by no means good at it!) in our lives and realizing that if I&#8217;m a stressed out mess I am not a good mom. \u00a0I recently read an article that said, &#8220;If it makes you yell, don&#8217;t do it.&#8221; or something like that. \u00a0In other words, don&#8217;t do so much (for your kids or for yourself or for others) that all of those commitments make you yell at your children or your spouse. \u00a0So I bought a kit and it was actually wonderful. \u00a0Easy to put together, no worries about the pieces not fitting together correctly, and no messy kitchen! \u00a0And while Carson didn&#8217;t LOVE it as much as I would have liked, he did get into it and put things where he wanted them to go. \u00a0But don&#8217;t try to eat anything off of it if you come over. \u00a0I am pretty sure he licked everything he put on the house.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gingerbread House My sisters and I started a tradition of making gingerbread houses when I was in college. \u00a0I think we made them every year for 4 or 5 years, and then we all got married and had kids and the whole thing became a lot harder to pull off. \u00a0But they were works &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/2013\/12\/17\/350365\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[23,26,27,28,25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sWbPG-350365","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}