Belly's Belly

Gingerbread Fiasco 2009 December 11, 2009

The Gingerbread Fiasco is nothing short of bedlam. Kids, candy, moms (a dad or two), icing (everywhere), babies, no naps, a little wine, six pizzas, Christmas movies, and more gingerbread than can possibly be imagined. Then there’s cousin Brucie: booming stories, smearing icing on begging faces, and in the old days cooking up the Canadian breakfast that followed our night-long candy eating and one-too-many-vanilla-stoli-and-ginger-ale-consuming binges, that have now become the silly memories of our college days. And Aunt Adrienne keeps it all rolling pretty smoothly–while letting 12 moms and 15 kids overrun her house!

This is the first year I’ve tried to build a house with Belly in tow and it was a half hearted success. She sat still long enough to eat two and a half mini slices of pizza–carved out of my big slices–and was a mostly surly toddler the rest of the time until her buddy Alex showed up and then she cheered up a bit.

That equals about 40 minutes of house decorating time–thanks mostly to Jenny who assembled the structure for me. Thanks Jen!

So if you’re ambitious you can start from scratch and build one with the directions below courtesy of Jen and Adrienne. Or you can do like I did and buy the house and go from there. Target, Amazon (I bought this one), even your grocery story should have them this time of year.

Here it is, in it’s current state, with hopes of whipping up some Royal Icing and finishing this bad boy before Christmas!

Fully assembled if not complete.

Gingerbread House Instructions (C) Jen Dreher
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