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Family Christmas Advent Calendar - Day 17

"At Christmas, all roads lead home"

Gingerbread house decorating is a tradition that my sister an I have been doing for years together. It’s so nice to sit down and take time to spend quality time with one and other. As she’s start to get in her twenties, it seem as if she getting to old to decorate gingerbread houses. It’s only natural that certain activities loss their charm with age. 

I’m a big kid at heart, so I will always have that childish charm. This year when I was grocery shopping with my dad I found a gingerbread village. I though to myself how original, and it was the perfect ginger house to make this year. We ended up having a blast laugh at each others houses. But hey we’re not pastry chefs! In the end they all come out so cute. We put the gingerbread house on different cake stands of different heights. I made some trees out of icing and pretzel sticks. With a pool of icing sugar cover in white sprinkles to make it look like snow around the houses. 



Since it’s Manifestation Monday I have a story about a  memory that came to me from many many years ago. I was around 10 or 11 years old searching high and low for an Aqua CD. I was looking everywhere I though it would be and place where I didn’t think it couldn’t have been. After two hours looking for this CD I gave up. I decided to turn to god. Yes that how badly I wanted to find that CD, I wanted to listen to the song “Barbie Girl”! Back then YouTube didn’t exists so the only way to listen to a song was with a CD. So like I said I decided to pray. I went into the bathroom with the light off, said the Our Father and ask to help me find the CD. Then I decided to let it go. Knowing that I had put finding the CD in God’s hands. To be honest within minutes I had found the CD and I wasn’t even looking for it anymore. Back then I had no idea about manifestation or law of attraction. But thinking back that day way manifestation at it finest.

Do you and your family enjoy decorating gingerbread houses during the holidays? Let me know in the comments below :)

xoxo ItalianGem


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