So far the only Holiday decoration we have up are the kids Gingerbread houses. I know it's pathetic and sad. Someone said ... but you have kids you have to put up the decorations for them. Exactly, I have kids. Kids who have been sick constantly since the beginning of November. We will get the tree up and the stockings hung, even if it's done on the 23rd of December.
Tradition is that on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Grandma Mum opens up her home for the making of Gingerbread Houses. The making of Gingerbread houses is a GR family tradition that goes back a good 29 years or so with little interruption. Before the intruduction of Grandchildren, you had to be 7 to be invited to come and make a house. With the addition of our crew we've found that that number can be fudged a little. Each year we try and invite new family or two and it's become a fun tradition to share.
Despite lots of friends not being able to join us, we had a grand time with those who could. Here are pictures of the kids building their houses, and of the friends who were able to join us.
The house in the upper left corner of the second set of pictures belongs to Emily. Here she's midway through decorating it and very upset. Her gingerbread wasn't dry enough and consequently her roof broke right where the roof and wall meets. J & Somebody helped her with the column solution ... very creative I thought. But in the end, she opted to forgo the columns and turn the overhangs into paths leading to the backyard.
Close up shots of each of the children's houses are loaded on Flickr. I think next year they each need to enter a house into the local charity auction.
2 comments:
They look wonderful! What a fantastic tradition.
Rock on! You guys did a great job on the houses. And I see a Family Fun train in the background, too. How did that pattern work?
At the East Coast continuation of the gingerbread house tradition, one of my friends made an RV, complete with a car up on rails.
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