Gingerbread Decorations

Have you ever seen those beautiful gingerbread houses during the holiday season that are so beautiful? They look so simple, and resemble such a fun project to do with children to make gifts for grandparents. Only I could feel it .... Soft Christmas music in the background, the heat, the spicy smell of gingerbread fills the air, the cozy warmth of the fire on a snowy day, and my kids and I build these tasty goodies that bless our family and friends, and all inexpensively as well.That was fantasy. Where is my mind? How could I forget the little thing we call reality? Have you noticed how the professionals make things easy? This is the hallmark of a professional.

The Reality of the first store. The money was very tight and they consider it a great way to give a quality gift of several of their relatives. After we did the shopping for candy and the ingredients of gingerbread houses, the bill totaled nearly 75 years. I almost fainted. (We could have bought gifts for this great, or even bought beautiful gingerbread houses).

As for Christmas music, the children insisted on singing the Chipmunk Christmas. Have you ever listened to more than a Chipmunk song at a time? Have you noticed that this makes for a brain?

The fire was nice, but then we were fighting over whose turn it was to stoke the fire. Two boys can fight over anything and everything related work is indeed a worthy struggle.

We started with the dough, and part of the result! It was so delicious ... .. In fact, we had to do more, because after all, we eat the dough, there was not enough for the houses. So .... Back to make more dough.

This particular dough should be chilled, then rolled, then you cut pieces of the house from a paper mold with a knife. Ok, got that part. We put in the oven for cooking, and half of the songs burned terribly. The other half was perfect, but you can not build a house with half the pieces. While ... .. we had to make more dough. Currently, we are not more fun. It's getting late and the mother begins to want to get this mess cleaned up now.
We have completed the manufacture of new house and it was nearly midnight, I had long put the kids to bed and was so cranky now. The only thing to do now is to let everything cool (including moderates), and the attempt to decorate tomorrow.

Phew .... New day, it's a wonder what a little sleep will do to you. Now we do the hard glaze to serve as glue to hold parts of the house together, the time to build. Time for the fun begin, boy we're ready! We start assembling the house, and half the roof piece breaks into two houses on one. On the second house, found the pieces do not fit properly. On a third house, we overcome all these first two hurdles, and now very hard to get into home accessories and glue "dry, and it is repeatedly collapse and cause the elder children having a tantrum in frustration (mom too). In some way by this fiasco, we end up with a viable home. (The others have become hard things like dog biscuits for your pet company). Well, she needs her Christmas goodies, right? We frosted the house and each child decorated and a half. The end result is A $ 75. UGLY gingerbread house only a grandmother (with apologizes to mom) would take and not be too insulted. But we did achieve our goals .... It was a memory. A memory that we affectionately call "The Nightmare bread spice.