Now I know why my parents didn't really build gingerbread houses with us growing up. I haven't quite figured out who it's fun for yet. Here's this house that you need to ice the walls together. Let it set for an hour before adding candy decor (making your kids mad and bored). And then watch your kids eat said decor before it makes it on the walls of the gingerbread. Oh all while hearing them fight over the icing bag or who ate more of the circle candy. Ohhh and the best part: chasing Sam around the dining area while he hunts for every piece of candy that falls to the floor.
In the store when I was purchasing the house I thought "oh this will be fun...it will give us something to do one evening this week after school." I pictured the girls giggling and singing Christmas songs working together. Yeahhhhh, I should have known better. Our reality was candy all over the floor, Ella having a meltdown because Madeline ate too much icing, little candy balls spilling everywhere, me screaming, Tom running off to his class Christmas party mid-decorating (after cleaning his suit jacket that was covered in icing) and me cleaning it ALL up.
Next year, we are skipping this.
Oh who am I kidding? I bet we torture ourselves all over again.
In the store when I was purchasing the house I thought "oh this will be fun...it will give us something to do one evening this week after school." I pictured the girls giggling and singing Christmas songs working together. Yeahhhhh, I should have known better. Our reality was candy all over the floor, Ella having a meltdown because Madeline ate too much icing, little candy balls spilling everywhere, me screaming, Tom running off to his class Christmas party mid-decorating (after cleaning his suit jacket that was covered in icing) and me cleaning it ALL up.
Next year, we are skipping this.
Oh who am I kidding? I bet we torture ourselves all over again.
Oh how happy they are to start.
Just hunting on the ground for spare candy.
We did Christmas crafts while we waited for the house to set.
I'm seeing sassiness in this picture.
And this is what set Ella off. Hence no more pictures to follow because well...they would not have been very pretty;)
2 comments:
OMG I have tears running down my face. I literally can't stop laughing at what set Ella off! That is a keeper in the album for sure!! xoxo
I remember making one here when you and the girls stayed with us that year. And you're right about the candy getting eaten before getting on the house - cause I believe I was the one eating it all!
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