Have you ever made a Gingerbread house? Why do you do it? Why is it such a tradition for so many people? Do you keep them and eat them? Or gaze at it then toss it?
I really have no idea what it's all about. I've never done it and wasn't planning on doing it either, ever. I'm not terribly keen on wasting things, so building a house out of not-so-great-cookie and filling it with not-so-good-for-you candy doesn't really make sense to me. When our church had an evening planned for the ladies and children to make Gingerbread houses my gut reaction was "nah".... but when the kids saw the poster they were so excited I couldn't be the mean mom and say no. So we went to Walmart, bought a kit and had a hoot, decorating to our hearts content. :)) I thought I would be constantly telling them "don't touch" when we took it home, but it's Andy I have to worry about :) Between him and Rowan... the house will be eaten in no time!
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| We assembled the shell at home so the icing would harden before decorating. |
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| Seth and Jayden VanderGaag - buddies |
I read a handful of blogs every morning. Yours is the one I look forward to reading the most. You have such lovely upbeat style of writing and your pictures are gorgeous! I hope you keep posting more updates to life in your lovely family. We hope you are all doing well. We wish you a Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Mrs VanderGaag! It's nice to get comments/feedback too. I'm hoping to keep it up so that one day I can print it up and have a journal/photo album for the children. There are so many interesting things that happen in our lives and if I don't write them down it's easy to forget all the blessings. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas as well! God bless.
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