Last year after Christmas I found two gingerbread house kits on sale for 99 cents each. There was an expiration date on them for this summer, but since we weren’t going to consume them, I figured they would keep.
Last Monday we made the dough and refrigerated it until Friday, when we rolled it out and baked it. Let me just tell you: I’m not a fan of making gingerbread houses. It was a pain in the rear end trying to roll, cut, lift, and not break the pieces! I ended up just cutting out pieces for one house to save my sanity.
While I was doing this, the kids unwrapped small pieces of leftover Halloween candy (yes, we still have candy leftover because they went trick-or-treating with the neighbor kids and hit many more houses than I would ever let them attempt, and of course they hardly ate much after the first day).
We made the icing that came with the kits, and the kids went to town decorating. They absolutely loved it!
While they were hard at work, the front door rattled — and Daddy walked into the house! This was his first time home since mid-July! The kids were excited to see him, but Deacon was over the moon! We have seen R every couple weeks, but Deacon hasn’t seen him since July. It almost made me cry to see how happy the dog was to see R! He couldn’t contain himself — it was the cutest thing!!!
So… our gingerbread house is done, perched on top of the fridge. Our dog is home after 2+ months with a trainer. And Daddy came home for just a couple days! It was a great weekend, to say the least!!!
Tags: Bubba, Daddy, Deacon, gingerbread house, Moco
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