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December 4, 2024 Gingerbread Houses with the Neighborhood

We decided to have all the kids from our neighborhood over to decorate gingerbread houses for the holidays. We have a LOT of kids in our neighborhood, so, in the interest of keeping things simple and stress free, I picked up pre-made gingerbread houses from Target. If you didn’t want to spend this much money, […]

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November 27, 2024 Gingerbread Houses at The Langham Hotel

Last year, we had so much fun making gingerbread houses at the Langham Hotel in Boston. Led by pastry chef Kerry Levesque, children design their own houses while also indulging in a candy and hot chocolate bar and maybe even get a chance to see the big man himself! When you walk in you are […]

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February 6, 2020 The Neighborhood Holiday Party

Every year our neighborhood has an adults only holiday party. This year, we ended up hosting. Hosts provide the main dish and everyone else brings appetizers, sides and desserts potluck style. So what was on the menu? A 20lb whole turkey, a 5lb roast that we did in the Instant Pot and 10lbs of flank […]

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February 4, 2020 Santa Claus is Coming to Town…

Holiday party for 30 kids, with SANTA!! Check out what we did, what we ate, and what we sent everyone home with!

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December 24, 2017 Judging the Gingerbread House Competition

Every year it is such a fun treat for the family to get to go to the Boston Christmas Festival and judge the gingerbread house competition. This was our second year judging the competition but we have been going to the festival for over a decade now. Nothing says holiday season to me like gingerbread […]

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November 4, 2016 Boston Christmas Festival

Ever since I was a kid, my mom and I would go to the Christmas Festival. We would do some light shopping and then go out to the now closed Anthony’s Pier 4. The Christmas festival, now in its 30th year, has a wonderful gingerbread house display every year. The houses are judged and sold, […]

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