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This Season's Exquisite Corpse
I know I said I was putting domesticity aside for a while, and truly I am, but indulge me in a moment of pride at having, quite literally, gotten something together.
Coming from a family that has little time for tradition (not out of contempt or anything, everyone just gets busy and that's the way it is), even gently poking at one of my own seems not only extraordinarily optimistic but a recipe for let down.
Still, for six years now I've managed to get it together to build a little house out of gingerbread- with decorating help from family friends and some strangers, of course. The architecture is the same every year and the goal is less Martha Stewart than exquisite corpse- highly individual but collaborative with a single formal goal in the end.
Every year I think I can't possibly manage. Every year there is a late night session with burned fingers as I assemble the little structure and the diorama around it.
Tradition is far from my forte, so I hope I'll be able to keep it together and that my child will find this project amusing, not embarrassing. Though I expect access to sufficient amounts of candy and colored icing might take a bit of the sting out of having a silly parent.
posted by Elise at 4:32 AM
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