One of our Christmas traditions is making a gingerbread house. We fully intended to do one before Christmas. When that didn't happen, the plan was to make on Christmas afternoon, but ran out of time. Then came the Webster Family party.....a sick mom.....a dad who had to go back to work.......To make a long story short, poor Bria has been asking every day for 3 weeks if we could make the gingerbread house. At least our kids are young enough to not realize the difference.
On to the gingerbread story. We bought a gingerbread house kit. As much as I like homemade, sometimes I go for easy - (and apparently that wasn't even easy enough this time). These were the package instructions:
1. Put frosting on edges of walls and put 4 outside walls together.
2. Wait for 30 MINUTES
3. Put frosting on top of walls and place 2 roof pieces.
4. Wait for 30 MORE MINUTES.
Okay, I'm thinking that whoever put this kit together does not have small children. I mean..... ONE WHOLE HOUR before you can even start putting the candy pieces on?!? What fun is that!! SOOO, we took the shortcut and just put the whole thing together. I mean, who cares if it doesn't last.....we're already getting this done late, right? After about 6 tries, Dave finally got the house to actually stand up. He mostly decorated it because if either of the kids touched it, it would fall apart. Bria acted as decoration consultant so, all the candy pieces went right where she wanted them. Max acted as candy janitor (.....or candy eater, whatever you want to call it). And, they both had a blast!! So, better late than never, right?!?
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Literally 2 minutes after we took the pictures of the kids, we had complete and utter gingerbread destruction. The whole house collapsed on itself. I guess it wasn't up to code!
At least you did a gingerbread house. I Don't think my kids even know what a gingerbread house is. It still looks like fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat a funny story. The Ginger bread house turned out realy good, even if it was for a short time,, and then everyone could eat it right? But anyways, the pictures will last even if the ginger bread house doesn't. Grandma
ReplyDeleteYeah, we did one of those kits once. Two words: glue gun.
ReplyDeleteI love making gingerbread houses! At home, well, Kaysville home we used to just keep looking at our house and everything was hard when we finally ate it, if it falls over you get to eat is fresh! and at least you got cute pictures.
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