If I was a "good mom" I would make our own gingerbread house pieces with the girls. In my mind I see them in their cute matching aprons, sweetly measuring ingredients, saying, "yes, Mam, I'll wait my turn", learning the math behind the measuring ingredients, reading books at the kitchen table while the cookies bake and then calmly putting together a wonderful winter wonderland scene of gingerbread and icing. But in real life it would go something more like this.....Lyla, stop burying your hands in the flour....Girls, stop licking your fingers and dipping and redipping them in the sugar....No, you can't have a 4th tablespoon of brown sugar to eat....Lyla, don't rub the cookie dough all over your arms....please stop laying on the counters and dragging flour off onto the floor....please WAIT until we measure to dump it in....UGHHHH....just go play wii while I finish!
So, instead of that mess, I went for the quick, less mom-of-the-year approach. I bought a $10 gingerbread house kit. I only bought one because it's $10!!!! They enjoyed putting it together and got along pretty well even though they had to share it. But, it just didn't last long. It just wouldn't stay standing up! Oh well, at least they're smiling.
This is of the girls decorating some sugar cookies a day or so later. I did make these cookies with the girls. It went pretty much like the description above! I think I kept my cool though. Ha!
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