Do you ever see those beautiful gingerbread houses during vacation periods that are so beautiful? They look so simple, and look like such a fun project to do with children doing gifts for grandparents. I could only hear .... Soft Christmas music in the background, the warm, spicy smell of gingerbread fills the air, the warmth of friendly fire in a snowy day, and my children and I build these luscious goodies sure to bless our family and friends, and all the cheap as well.
That was fantasy. Where was my mind? How could I forget the little thing we call reality? Have you ever noticed how the professionals make things easy? This is the sign of a professional.
The first reality check was the shop. The money was very tight and it seemed a great way to give as gift to several loved ones. After we have been shopping for candy and the ingredients of these gingerbread houses, the bill of almost $ 75. I almost fainted. (We could have bought with great gifts, or even bought beautiful gingerbread houses).
As for Christmas music, the children insisted on Chipmunk's
Christmas carols. Have you ever heard more than a Chipmunk Song at a time? Have you ever noticed that what makes a brain?
The fire was beautiful, but then we had fights about whose turn it was to feed the fire. Two guys can fight over anything, and nothing works it is really worth a fight.
We started with the batter, and that part turned out! It 'been so
delicious ... .. in fact we had to do more because after all we eat pasta, it was not enough for the houses. Then .... Back to make more dough.
This particular dough should be chilled, then rolled, then cut pieces out of the house from a paper mold with a knife. Ok, got the part. We put it in the oven for cooking, and half the pieces burned terribly. The other half were perfect, but you can not build a house with half the components. So ... .. we had to make more dough. Now, we're not having fun anymore. It's getting late and the mother begins to want to get this mess cleaned up
hours. We finished the new house to pieces and it was like midnight, I had long put to bed the child was irritable and now this. The only thing to do now was to cool everything (including spirits), and the attempt of tomorrow decoration.
Uh .... New day is a miracle that a bit 'of sleep do ya. Now we have to make hard icing that will act as a glue to hold together pieces of the house, time to build. Time for the fun to begin with, we're ready boy!
We start assembling the house, and half of the roof piece broke in two on one of the houses. The second house, there are pieces of correspondence incorrectly. In a third house, we passed all these first two obstacles and now have great difficulty getting props for keeping house together, while the "glue" dried, and repeatedly falling apart and causing the oldest child
have a temper tantrum in frustration (mom too). Somehow through this fiasco, you end up with a profitable home. (The others, hard dog biscuit type things for the family pet). Oh well, needs her Christmas goodies, right? We frosted the house and each child decorated half.
The end result? A $ 75. ugly house of gingerbread that only a grandmother (with the excuse of mother) would take and not be insulted by too. But we did achieve one of our goals .... It is a memory. A memory that we affectionately called "The Gingerbread
Nightmare. "
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