The Longest Run

In addition to making pepper jelly today, we built the gingerbread house in the picture above. Random House recently published an entire book on gingerbread houses ( The Gingerbread Architect: Recipes and Blueprints for Twelve Classic American Homes ) and in honor of our friend Phyllis we decided our first house would be in the Cape Cod style. The house was a lot of work but also a lot of fun and a great family project.