Our family had never made a gingerbread house and I thought it would be a great Sunday evening family activity. What was I thinking?
All week I had asked the girls to please leave Sunday evening open for a family Christmas activity.
By 6pm I had everyone assembled in the kitchen with gingerbread, frosting and decorating materials laid out. Oh this was going to be such fun!
Suddenly my bubble burst.
Just listen to the comments that were made (by 15 and 12 year old daughters) and you'll know why.
Can we just do this already?
This is dumb. Why do we have to decorate a gingerbread house?
What's the purpose of this thing anyway?
I'm starving. What's for dinner? I forgot to eat lunch.
Who invented the gingerbread house? They must have had NOTHING to do.
I'd rather watch a movie.
Can't you and Dad just do this?
Ok, so it wasn't all visions of sugar plums like I had hoped but I'm sure that in about 10 years they'll look back on this and laugh. They'll probably feel guilty that they didn't humor their mother and decorate the dumb gingerbread house.
Lawman and I had fun with it. And maybe we'll laugh at the memory in 10 years too.
3 comments:
ok, that is funny. More often than not I wish they would never grow up
I guess you should have tried this several years ago, but then it would have been a mess and you really wouldn't have enjoyed it! I am too uptight for messes, but we did do this one year. Haven't done it since. Wonder why??
Oh yeah... fun times with the fam....
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