December 4, 2006

Gingerbread trauma

Having a bad day. Get the whole house (without decorations) assembled. The perfectionist realizes the overhang of the roof is overhanging on the back, not front. Proceed to slide the roof a bit to the left, crack one of the roof panels in half. Tell son what happened. Son cries. Glue the cracked roof with frosting. Use cardboard to support cracked roof. Reassemble roof. Looking good. Let dry for a while. Tell son it's okay, he can start decorating. Leave to use restroom. Hear son crying. Run into room to see the uncracked side of roof sliding miserably off entire house. Take entire roof off. Fix cracked side of roof again, and let dry. Put other half of roof back on. Walls start falling apart. Reassemble walls with ALOT of frosting. Let dry for a few hours. Put roof back on. Use small tupperware cups to hold up the roof just incase it decides to slide. Accidently push in one of the walls with one of the cups. Try to figure out how the heck to fix this without removing roof. Figure it out. No frosting left for decorations. Let dry overnight and until the next afternoon. Use canned frosting for decorations. IT WORKS! Praise the Lord. Yell at son every time he thinks about going near it. Take pictures before the whole thing falls.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, if nothing else, you got a great picture! Today I saw some gingerbread house baking pans at Michael's Craft store. Just one pan. Make cake. Frost and decorate. Probably smaller than what you did, tho. Then again, there's always the hermit-cookie method. (For those unfamiliar with this technique, you use frosting to build a house with hermit cookies, then frost and decorate it. Just use frosting that is pretty thick and will dry somewhat.)

7:12 PM  

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