Gingerbread House

This is the first Christmas since Rick and I were married that we have been at our own house during Christmas. We both thought it was time we started our own traditions, in our house, with our kids and we just could not do those little things when we were never home. So, this year, we are trying to make a few fun traditions and fill 2 days with interesting things so the kids will have a fun, and not lonely, Christmas.



This morning (Christmas Eve) we made a Gingerbread House. I have never made one before, or even eaten Gingerbread for that matter but I thought Millie would enjoy it so I picked up an idiot proof kit at the store. I didn't even have to make the gingerbread, the pieces were already in there, perfect for me :-) It went together easily but the icing continued to moved the entire time. I had a flash back to my college Fluid Mechanics class where we learned that everything is actually a fluid, slowly moving over time. This is why the glass windows in old building is always wavy looking. Glass is a fluid slowly moving and that is why they are ripply looking. Anyway...the icing did not want to stay put so we had to quickly get our decorations on before they all slid off. It put a damper on the pretzel rail fence I wanted to build and the other accessories I had in mind.


Reed didn't really help build it but he did enjoy cleaning up scraps along the way. He also managed to eat the fence I was going to build.