The dismembered gingerbread house invades our house every year, and oh how I dread its arrival.

Pieces requiring assembly, that do not ever stay where they are supposed to stay, no matter how much icing is applied.

Now there is a Haunted House and an Easter Cottage.

Oh, the humanity!

Michelle is a contributing author in the most recent Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of Canada. Her writing has won several awards, and appeared in The Globe and Mail and a number of local magazines and newspapers in Alliston and Barrie. She has a monthly series in the Focus 50 + Newspaper based on her short story “Lightning Strikers.” You can find her online at michelledinnick.com.