Christmas Coffee Catch Up: Gingerbread and Holiday Lights!

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Uncategorized

Linking up with my and Lisa at Boondock Rambling’s

Comfy Cozy Christmas!

Hello everyone!! We have been making merry in our own way over here! I was trying to not overwhelm all of us with activities this year, and have a slower Christmas and it has been really nice. However, now as we are getting closer to the big day, I am staring to freak out just a bit! You know, all the usual things: Did I buy enough? Did I remember everyone? Will people like what we did get for them, or made for them? Maybe I took it too slow this year, did Wyatt get to do enough? Will it ever snow? What do I need for Christmas dinner? I never did get that Christmas photo of Wyatt that I wanted… And the list goes on…. I am trying to keep it all in perspective though, and enjoy the things that we are doing and not compare them to anything else.

Let’s see. Since I last posted one of these, we have done a few things.

On Saturday, we made gingerbread! I love gingerbread, Billy loves gingerbread, Wyatt loves gingerbread. We are a gingerbread kind of family! The recipe I use is from @ofbeeandbear. This recipe is amazing, and she is a wonderful, beautiful soul. Her recipe calls for types of flour, spelt and wheat; however I use all purpose and wheat, which she says is perfectly fine. Or you can make them using entirely all purpose flour. Anyway, I think her recipe is the perfect balance of the spices and chewy vs. soft, if that makes sense.

We started that morning off right as well, with pancakes, some of them plain, some cinnamon, and some ginger. It was a delicious start to the day!

After Wyatt’s medicine and nap, and a quick trip to the library, the baking commenced!

We danced and sang along to Christmas music as we baked, in the glow of our little Christmas tree, as the day itself was very gray and gloomy. We made our own sunshine though as we all had our jobs to do. I made the dough and also rolled it out, Wyatt cut the shapes, and Billy kept the assembly line from table to oven and out again rolling!

They turned out delicious, if I do say so myself. We enjoyed a few all nice and warm and freshly baked on the floor in front of the tree, and I am pretty sure Oliver was giving us the eye because he wanted some too. Sorry Oliver, geckos can’t eat gingerbread!

On Sunday, it rained all day long. Like all day. Nonstop. We had had plans to go to the Detroit Zoo for the Wild Lights, but there was no way we were going in the rain. So instead we just caught up on things around the house, which was way less fun. Our tickets were open ended thank goodness, so we decided to go to the lights on Tuesday instead. Billy worked from home that day, and when quitting time rolled around, we headed to the zoo!

We had so much fun. It was a chilly night, but not too cold, and thankfully, it was dry. Since it was a Tuesday, there weren’t even too many other people there, which made it nice, especially with a wheelchair. We really did have a blast!

I packed up a few of those gingerbread cookies before we left, and we happily nibbled on those, and shared hot pretzels as well, as we strolled through the zoo, marveling at the lights on disply!

We were enchanted right off the bat! Everything just looked so magical!

We all loved the Enchanted Trail.

There were animals made of lights surrounding us on the trail, larger than life, and glimmering, twinkling strands all overhead. I took a lot of video on the trail and not as many photos, but these are a few of the photos I took.

After we walked the Enchanted Trail, we continued around the zoo. I just loved wandering around and seeing what they had created.

We are making more cookies today and tomorrow, as well as watching a few more Christmas movies all the way up until Christmas Eve. Saturday we have Christmas with my dad, and we always have such a nice, chill, relaxed time. I am looking forward to it!

I hope that no matter what you are doing this December, you do something that makes you smile!

19 thoughts on “Christmas Coffee Catch Up: Gingerbread and Holiday Lights!”

  2. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    The zoolights looks and sound fabulous! I love that they’re open ended; most of our zoos you have to pick a night and just hope and pray the weather is nice or else you’re out of luck.

    Your gingerbread look yummy!

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  5. marsha57's avatar marsha57

    I love how you, Billy, and Wyatt are such a close knit family. I don’t know that it’s rare, but it’s not been my experience. I’m so glad you let us have these peeks into your life, Erin, because they make mine so much happier. Oh, and have you ever tried warm gingerbread with applesauce? Delicious!

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  6. I’m always on the hunt for the perfect gingerbread cookie recipe, so I’ll have to check this one out – yours turned out so good!

    And I am so jealous of the zoo lights … our zoo did a drive through lights in the parking lot one year, but it wasn’t super well thought out = they never did it again. I’d love something like that like to wander through though 🙂

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  8. That gingerbread looks soooo good! I bet it was amazing.

    The zoo event always looks like so much fun too! I love the photos of you three there but also of the animals made of lights. They are so cool. And Oliver…oh my gosh he is always so adorable!

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