We went for the traditional family-made gingerbread house...nah. We did a store-bought kit this year. Our apartment kitchen is just much too small to really make your own!
We started out reading the directions. Imagine that! They called for putting the decorations on the walls before standing them upright, and ALLOWING THEM TO DRY first. Ahhh! Eureka, the secret that had eluded the Chacko family...right under our very noses! Wow, if you do that, the decorations do not slide down the side of the gingerbread house.
Sadly, we could not keep to the directions for long. We gave up on a beautiful house so that we won't feel so bad about eating it in a couple of days. Somehow, Santa got red eyes...and many giggles later...was an alien version of Santa who had knocked a gingerbread man off the roof. This, alas, is not an unusual occurrence when trying to keep traditions with our kids. They like to keep things original every year!
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