You know all those things you used to do this time of year, every year, with your family? I've been thinking about all of mine lately, especially now that my daughter is getting old enough (well... almost) to start being introduced to some her self. It's a little funny how many of them revolved around food when I was a kid, now that I'm thinking about it!

But we're our own family now, and I've decided that we're going to start our own yearly traditions. Which is why I've just spent the last three hours baking my little tush off, making pieces for a ginger bread house and the spice cake that it will sit on! XD I always loved looking at those ginger bread kits and displays in stores when I was little but my parents never got me one. Not so much because they didn't want me having it but more because we just got so busy with other holiday stuff that they wouldn't have time to do it with me or would just plain forget. Now that I'm the parent, I've been quite taken with the idea that we will bake and decorate a gingerbread house on Christmas eve from now on!

Well now that I've stayed up far to late I wanted to wish you all the happiest of holidays and hope that you get to celebrate all those traditions that you've come to enjoy with your family, and maybe even a few of those not so great ones... Because, let's face it, Christmas just wouldn't be the same with out them!