Better Late than Never

Here are pics of our attempt at making a gingerbread house over the holidays with my mom and the kids. It looked AMAZING for about 20 minutes, and then it fell down. It was 2 days in the making. We made the batter, rolled out the walls, baked them, mixed the frosting/glue, constructed the house and then finally decorated it. I think the kids liked the decorating best.



So, when the house fell down I set the timer for 10 minutes and told the kids they could eat whatever candy they wanted until the bell rang. At some point, they couldn't consume anymore. Somewhere around 6 minutes.


Following this, I brushed their teeth thoroughly. Then I sat them down in front of a Christmas movie and spent 45 minutes cleaning up the sticky mess. It was ALL worth it.



Two weeks later we did it again with a smaller house. We baked the, you know what, out of the walls. It worked...success at last!