Gingerbread Chez Fleck
The Wilson Ultimate Gingerbread House Kit should come with a huge flaming warning label: "Requires several hours of drying time between steps. Do no attempt with 5 children on residual sugar highs." And also: "Do not assemble in California and other earth quake prone areas . Or any place else where a butterfly might flutter by and create strong air vibrations causing the house to crash to the basement."
So the kids made it 5 minutes in the kitchen with me before I shoed them out because Emily kept trying the icing bond of the two walls I had up, Zach was tired of holding his wall up after twenty seconds, Ally was upset the girl decoration was broken, Kyle kept dropping the instructions, and Kelly took a bit out of the side wall (as seen below).
I really hope no housing inspectors wade through our foot of snow to check on the building codes. The pre-baked pieces aren't lining up all that well. I had 4 walls up and then realized the 5th one wasn't going to touch two of the others (the extra wall is a support piece in the middle). Duh moment: icing is not very good cement. I'm wondering how edible dry wall spackle is.
So here's where we are at 10am. Please check back throughout the day for (hopefully non-breaking) updates.
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