Comments on: Gingerbread and Parties and Snow, Oh My https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/ Literary Agent Tue, 13 May 2025 22:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gabster https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-180943 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:58:59 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-180943 Snappoint…

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]]> By: Heather B. Moore https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7156 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:54:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7156 >My kids made “gingerbread trains”–very cute, but they didn’t last 48 hours. lol.

]]> By: Katy McKenna https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7155 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:40:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7155 >Yesterday, we attended our church friends’ Fourth Annual Festival of the Aluminum Trees, a huge event with our crowd. What could be better than great friends, good food, and a nostalgic display of a wonderful collection of silver, gold, pink, and blue trees? From here on out, the family is the focus….Yay!

]]> By: Marla Taviano https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7154 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:27:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7154 >My mom, 2 sisters, SIL, and I each bought a gingerbread house kit. On Saturday, we’re all getting together (with our kiddos) and making a whole village. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but doing it with people I love so much makes it AWESOME. Seriously, I feel physically warm and fuzzy and tingly THE WHOLE ENTIRE TIME.

Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family!

]]> By: Pam Halter https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7152 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:34:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7152 >10 whole days to go before Christmas. That is a virtual eternity for me, giving me time to bake cookies, finish my sewing projects, clean the house and wrap the gifts. If I work non-stop, that is. 🙂 Oh, and I also have a proposal to send out, which was requested after an SCWBI workshop.

But what I’m really looking forward to is doing gingerbread cookies with my 2-year-old granddaughter. I’ll bake ’em and ice ’em and she’ll put on the sprinkles. 🙂 Too fun!!

]]> By: Jim Rubart https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7150 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7150 >Rachelle,

I thought I liked you before … but LOST and A.I.? Now I REALLY think you’re great! My wife and I can’t wait for either!

Merry Christmas.

]]> By: Jana https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7151 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7151 >This is Christmas Number Five for me of celebrating in a small, crammed-with-our-worldly-goods rental house while we remodel Dream Home Number Two (built in 1902). We’re so close to being done I was salivating over finally “Doing Christmas up right” this year but to no avail. (It was going to be such a quick project originally we negotiated a month by month lease with our landlord. Ha.)

These last Christmases have been celebrated at the Salvation Army Angel Tree, and by singing at church and with the Community Chorus, and hanging out with the homeless on Christmas Eve. They have been good in their own way, sans tree, tinsel, lights and baking, and make me feel holy to talk about them– but Christmas ’09is really going to rock!

]]> By: Karen https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7149 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7149 >Our Christmas with kids and grandkids is over all ready. We exchanged gifts at Thanksgiving since everyone who is scattered all over the continent was home then. We are preparing to leave for a holiday cruise and because we’ll be gone, we haven’t put up a tree or decorated. It seems kind of bleak around here so I’m anxious to get on the ship and see their decorations. Didn’t know I’d miss them so much.

Did have a Currier and Ives moment in Niagra Falls last week on the way back from my 100 Huntley Street appearance. Sat in a restaurant surrounded by a lighted mini-Christmas village watching the river rush by and huge soft snowflakes fall. Absolutely beautiful.

Merry Christmas all!

]]> By: Catherine West https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7148 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:13:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7148 >Well you know how much I love snow…sometimes hubby manages to persuade me to have a Canadian Christmas, but the last time we did that I went out for a walk before checking the temperature and discovered, after I could not longer feel my feet, that it was -31C!!! Needless to say, I prefer my Bermuda Christmas. We most of our traditions here come from Britain, so we will have the traditional Christmas dinner with turkey and ham, potatoes and lots of vegetables. We do a Bermuda dish called Cassava Pie, which is very hard to explain, but it’s delicious and extremely fattening!!! Our weather is typically in the 60’s around this time of year, as it is today, which is lovely.
I’m looking forward to my daughter coming home next week, son gets out of school this week after a very busy term.
I don’t get much done this time of year writing wise, which is often good because by the time January rolls around and the house is quiet again, I’m raring to go!

]]> By: Lea Ann McCombs https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7147 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:01:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7147 >I was gonna say I liked your new photo, but everyone else did so…Well, I like it anyway.

We don’t do snow in Oklahoma, we do ICE! Lat year’s ice storm put the whole state in a disaster category. We had this season’s first ice storm last night and school’s out and my kids are overcome with joy! Sponge Bob has not been quiet all morning!

I love this time of year–even all the hype and commercialism! It’s the only time of year where the whole country is focused on something positive and unified in the mindset of “peace on earth, goodwill to men.” Can’t have too much of that.

]]> By: Anita Mae Draper https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7146 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7146 >Nice photo, Rachelle. (No, I’m not sucking up…it really is…)

School buses cancelled here due to extreme cold today and this is warmer than yesterday:
– air temp -30C/-22F
with wind chill -42C/-44F

Even so, everyone still made it to church yesterday and then we drove an hour to a kids Christmas party.

God is so good! I didn’t know how I was going to finish decorating and get baking done by the time I head into city to get MIL tomorrow, but God has given us this extra day! I’ve told the kids to muster in the livingroom at 10:30 so I have a couple mins to finish this and get dressed before the fun starts.

I’ve spent more time than req’d Christmasfying the church blog that I write as well as my own but now kids can go to the Sunday school page and decorate a virtual tree. I just had to figure out how to set it up. LOL

Okay, gotta go…

]]> By: Rachel https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7145 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:30:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7145 >Oh yeah–and I feel co-dependent regarding the show Lost. If it’s on, I feel happy and hopeful. If a WKU game interrupts it or the writers go on strike, I am bereft. I keep trying to break up with the show, as it wields so much power over me. But I can’t. I’m weak.

]]> By: Rachel https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7144 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:26:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7144 >Your new picture is cute. Was that at your husband’s formal Christmas party? Dressing up is so fun.

My sister (and absolute best friend and most reliable, faithful, tough critic) is moving to South Asia to pursue foreign missions with her husband and three little kids. They leave right after Christmas. We live in adjoining townhouses, and have homeschooled our kids together since they were of age. I’m so sad she’s leaving. Really, I feel hollow without her. Now I’m going to have to scrounge up some girlfriends…

I’ve started blogging. The stat counter is crack-cocaine. It’s best not to ever start checking it, because if you do…

]]> By: Chatty Kelly https://rachellegardner.com/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7143 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:43:00 +0000 http://rachellegardner.flywheelsites.com/2008/12/gingerbread-and-parties-and-snow-oh-my/#comment-7143 >p.s. Love your new picture!

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