Making Gingerbread!





We got our tree on Saturday, December 1st and got the lights up Sunday! So Monday rolled around and it was time to get baking! Every year since our kids were little we decided our Christmas tree would be a "kids tree" adorned with all things sweet smelling and delicious! So the baking began! It was so much fun to get the kids involved and Will became quite the efficient little gingerbread maker! Ethan and Maddi worked away at their little stations producing plump little gingerbread men, stars and hearts! And Emma....well lets just say she had enough dough pressed into her shirt and clothes to look like a little gingerbread girl!

The house smelled so wonderful after we made our mess and we let the kids stay up extra late so they could string them up and at least hang a few!

So.....how do these sweet smelling, delicious decorations last through the season with 4 small children, you ask???? The fun part is that they don't, but it is always fun as Christmas gets closer to see how many are missing arms, legs, even heads!!!! We find it quite hilarious because every year the kids get sneakier! Emma has already been busted, hiding behind the tree, crouched in the corner devouring one of our gingerbread boys! I just tell her to put it back on the tree knowing full well it is far from the last "Tiny Tim" to be found on our Christmas Tree!!!

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Oler Family said…
I loved your blog! What a cute tradition! I think I'd be the one eating the cookies off the tree though!!
December 10, 2007 at 8:54 AM
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