(taken from our old .mac site)
November 2007
So we picked up a gingerbread house kit at Costco and were anticipating a nice "family time" constructing our craft.
Dad agreed to make it with the kids while mom went to her night class, and again, he had this romantic notion that they'd bond and have tons of fun making their house.
Dad opens the package and the first thing Leah does is grab a wall and try to eat it, only it cracks a bit and Michael is immediately reduced to tears and starts screaming for his precious wall. And then they open the packages of candy and immediately Leah starts grabbing fistfuls and stuffs it in her mouth, Michael again starts screaming. Leah decides enough of this foolishness and goes to open a package of tiny red ball candies by herself, only the bag pops open and these balls scatter all over our living room (two weeks later we still find them in our vacuum). Construction is paused again due to screaming and gathering the red candies.
So dad makes the house, only he didn't read the directions where it says to let the icing stand 15 mins to harden and just lets the kids go. The roof starts to slide down and Michael screams again. Now dads hands are both holding up the roof while Michael and Leah decorate and fight.
Finally dad recruits the gingerbread men to hold up the roof and things start to settle down. There was happy family time at last.
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