Gingerbread Therapy

Words by Sarah Copeland
Photography by Amy Hanen

Every year I step further and further back and let her take the lead, and it's so much fun to see her vision come to life.

After-school gingerbread housing with my girl. Also therapy for all type-A bakers (me). Every year I step further and further back and let her take the lead, and it's so much fun to see her vision come to life. And for the first time ever -- I mean ever -- Màtyàs sat perfectly still in his chair, no climbing, content to lick icing off every surface and line up gum drops one by one all over the "snow" in an alarmingly straight row (maybe also secretly a Type-A baker? *crosses fingers*).