Making a Gingerbread house is one of our Christmas traditions. We usually do it from scratch and it is a 3-4 day process. Rock n Roll has always insisted on doing the real thing and has looked down upon the store bought kits. But this year I managed to convince him that a kit would be a great time saver at a very busy time of year. Especially since we haven’t been able to get to this tradition every single year because it’s so time consuming. Rock n Roll survived and the experience took a total of about 2 hours even with with kids stopping to eat/trying to eat/asking to eat the candy every two seconds.
It is actually a torturous experience for them because we then give the house away to someone we know he needs it for Christmas. So this year they are looking forward to making graham cracker gingerbread houses with Grandma that they can actually eat! I’m pretty sure the graham cracker houses will become a tradition. Here’s the finished product for this year.