The Gingerbread House

Although Christmas is over and we're nearly a week into 2010, I feel obliged to post these pictures because I said I would. Here's our gingerbread house in all it's glory and the two little ragamuffins who helped me decorate it. As well as the floor that needs to be mopped and the garbage can that needs to be emptied.

This is the side that I decorated...the front, of course:


And here's Remember's side...she did have some assistance:


And finally, Honour's side. I think his idea was to just stick as many of the biggest pieces of candy on as he possibly could.


Justice very happily played the part of supervisor, and enjoyed laughing at the camera:


As I alluded to in my last post, this was certainly not a "perfect" experience. By the time the gingerbread house was actually decorated, the counters, the floor, the children and I were all bedecked in frosting. Honour and Remember's fat little faces and hands were sticky from candy, some of which had been stolen. And, you'll probably notice that we only decorated three sides of the house. That's because I didn't have energy for the last side:

As I purposed (multiple times) to resist frustration and just enjoy this experience with the kids, a post I'd stumbled upon a while ago kept coming to mind. If you have just five extra minutes, you really should read it. Find it here.

Happy 2010!