GINGERBREAD HOUSE HORROR!

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT NOR NEVER WILL BE OR EVER PLAN ON BEING A CREATIVE, CRAFTY PERSON!!!!

Last week my mom sent me this little gingerbread house to make. I was SOO excited because last year I saw many of you blogging about your little gingerbread house you made as a family. I thought "What a cute tradition! Maybe we'll start that! I could do that!" So we decided we'd have a nice little family night on Monday, make our little house and then watch The Nativity. Sometimes what we envision in our head doesn't come out the way we expected....

Already that day, Boston had thrown up and had a fever. I thought he'd sit just fine on the table while we decorated....WRONG! He refused to be put down and just wanted to be held (what else do you expect from a sick 18 month old?) which left my hands full! Finally, we just decided to watch The Nativity, put Boston to bed and then complete this little project. I search for The Nativity and sure enough I can't find it! In fact, now that I think about it, I don't even believe we own it so why I thought we did I have NO IDEA! So that failed and my idea of the perfect FHE slowly began to fade. We decided to put Boston to bed a 7 pm and on we went to complete our house...

Kent made the "mortar" and I kept telling him to make it just right and to add water if needed. I doubted his final product but he assured me it was okay....until he started trying to put up the walls. Yep, sure enough the frosting was too hard! I laughed and gave him a hard time when all the sudden a whole busted in the side of the bag where frosting was just seeping out! All this just made Kent's blood boil and stress levels rise (I'm sure my laughter wasn't helping either). At this point, I'm doing okay and just trying to stay calm about it.

... That is until we got to the windows! I was reading the directions and telling Kent the windows had to be put together PRIOR to being put on the house but Kent said, "Karlee TRUST ME, it'll be okay!" I let him mess up his window because we all know he should havefollowed the directions! I decided the second window would be mine to put together the RIGHT way (which in turn started to make MY stress levels rise)!

We put green frosting on the roof and I thought, okay this is going to go smoothly now that the house is put together. My blood pressure lowers and I'm thinking, maybe this WILL work out...

That's until I worked on the front of the house and decided I have NO creativity and I have no idea why I even continue to attempt things like this over and over. My door knob must have been too heavy or something because it slipped to the ground and my "wreath" slowly started to allow gravity to take control as well! Since the white frosting was ruined I was unable to attempt any detailings and on top of that, I was too stressed to try! Kent was sitting back eating all the candy which for some reason bothered me even more so once I stuck some lame windows on the front I said, "WE'RE DONE!"

Kent then insisted on eatting it to which I said, "NO WAY!" I don't think you're supposed to eat them anyway....are you? Even if you are supposed to, that was NOT the time to try!

My side of the house vs. Kent's side of the house

My idea was for our finished product to look somewhat like this. I guess I should have listened to Kent in the beginning when he said not to have such high hopes! I've decided that we'll probably NEVER attempt this again and if my kids want a gingerbread house I'll do what I do best and just BUY ONE!!!!!