I love your gingerbread house. Decorating gingerbread with children is so hard to do for a perfectionist. Congrats on letting your children have fun with it.

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It looks absolutely perfect to me!

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So cute! I, too, hate messes like these would bring…so, we have not done a gingerbread house with the kids yet. I was thinking maybe next year…but after seeing of it from that perspective, maybe we should…we’ll see!

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I love it! That’s how ours turn out too – all one kind of candy on one side. This year I got a kit that has 5 mini houses so that everyone can have their own house to decorate. No fighting which is what usually happens here. Your kids are working so nicely together.

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The house turned out beautifully! I love the picture of Jayce’s sweet pudgy, little boy fingers!

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Too cute! What great family memories!

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Love the pictures…brings back memories of my own children and the fun “cookie parties”
we used to have at christmas….very messy but so much fun. Your children are very neat.

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That’s so pretty! Mine were always ghetto because I’d eat most of the candy.

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I LOVE it! That is absolutely perfect. It makes me smile to look at it. :)

And good for you, setting aside your idiosyncracies for the good of the children. :)

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Those are great! We usually do those every year, and it does take all I have in me not to micromanage the event. :-)

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Cute, cute, cute! My son walked by and said “Oh! That looks good!”. We did a house and sleigh this year. This is one time where I always set my Type A tendencies aside and do with the kids. We love doing them every year! The kids are still loving seeing it sitting on the table.

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I love this! Great Job! I make gingerbread houses every year with my students. Using a milk carton as the base, canned frosting as the glue and graham cracker instead of ginger bread. Then the kids bring in their own candy to decorate.

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So cute! And so funny that you posted this, since that is what we did last night as well. I agree with pp, it is very hard not to micromanage. I stayed out of it rather well this year I think, which is really saying something when your oldest child is 5. And to give them credit, the mess really wasn’t too bad.

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i love gingerbread house kits…they are the best!!! They did a great job though!

Oh and the hair in the dinner post…HILARIOUS!

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You put type A aside? Didn’t know that was possible. But I find it most impressive. I’m not good at it. Your kids look like they’re having an exceptionally lovely time. (Are you wringing your hands in the background?)

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How cute!!! We are making our this evening.. =)

I nominated you for an award. Hit my blog to pick it up!!!!

Love, Juile

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Wow- yours looks SO MUCH better than ours! LOL!

Steph

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