What looks like a little boy hard at work creating a gingerbread house is just an illusion.
Every year our neighborhood has a free gingerbread house decorating day. It always seem like the perfect family outing.
Today was far from perfect.
First of all, it was 83°! Do you know what happens to icing at 83°? Well it doesn't exactly act like glue - it resembles something more like snot. Snot running down- every where! Second, there was a huge golf tournament all around us- with thousands of golf carts everywhere. Did I mention I have 2 two-year-olds that I have to watch all the time? Thirdly, I expected Garrett not eat the large cookies that were actually walls. It can be heard from our table "No Garrett! Don't eat those! Those are not cookies! They are walls." I guess I didn't think about the fact that the walls looked like cookies, smelled like cookies, and even tasted like cookies. Not to mention that there is icing all around us that could go right on top of those cookies! So Garrett and I had a little fight over said cookies. At the time I was irritated that one of our walls had a bite taken out of it! If I could do it over with again I would just let him eat the whole darn wall.
At least the pictures make it look like we had a good time:
Next year I think it'll be a girls day out.
