It's been a Christmas tradition now for a couple years for us to build a Gingerbread house together. This year, however, it looked like it was not going to happen. There were just simply too many other things going on to try to plan a house, bake the pieces, build and decorate. We had come to grips with reality when the idea came up to use premade pieces. It was not quite as creative as we usually like to go, but it meant that it would be much easier to fit into our schedule and definitely much easier for the kids to pitch in. So Jason picked up some premade gingerbread house pieces from Ikea, we bought some candy and made some icing. Then, a few nights before Christmas, we got to work.
Atticus helped direct where things should go.
Milayla cheered very enthusiastically as the walls went up and dried.
Jason piped around the windows and the roof then added some icicles. Laura added some decorative piping on the walls.
Atticus color-coordinated the candy and handed different colors to Daddy.
And when it was all finished we marveled at how unstressful and enjoyable the process had been then promptly forgot to take a picture of the finished piece. It was not until a few days later (Christmas Day) when we noticed the roof cracking and bowing and the walls buckling that we realized the humidity was deteriorating our house and quickly! So we snapped a few photos right as our guests rang the doorbell.
When we came back from answering the door our house looked like this...
...we certainly snapped a photo of our finished house just in time!
While the house only lasted a couple days before humidity sent it tumbling down, we are sure glad we took the time-out as a family to create it together.
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