Yesterday we celebrated my mom’s birthday. What fun to have so many grandchildren when you turn 72!

My sister whipped a batch of gingerbread cookies. I was amazed at how ambitious she is. She had homemade apple pie, these cookies, her tree already decorated, and a nursing baby to boot! I was impressed.

Martha Steward and Betty Crocker move over. This is a non-white sugar pie that looks good too!

Oh, and did I mention she put together some silhouettes she made of the grandchildren as a birthday gift? They are not all done, but this is an idea of what the finished product will be. We will frame it too, of course.