Me, Martha Stewart? HARDLY!!

My poor kids!  I was so excited to decorate a gingerbread house with them last week.  After participating in the activity for years with kindergarten students, I was thrilled to share in the fun with my OWN kids.  Here is how it goes.  You take all of the pieces of the gingerbread house and glue them together with frosting.  After it is nice and stable, the fun part begins and it's time to decorate the lovely house with lots of candy.  Well folks, my inner Martha was gone that day.  I could not even get the house to stay together.  The roof kept falling along with all sides of the house.  I was humiliated.  Stumped.  Frustrated.  Sticky.  Do you understand what I'm saying here?  I could NOT get the darn thing to stay together. The simplest thing ever.  Anyway, despite my troubles, the boys had a great time.  I laid the pieces flat and Preston put tons of candy on the sides and Mason had a blast eating the candy.  I have to constantly remind myself of a saying that is repeated often when working with children......"It's the process not the product".  And the process was fun!