Nibble, Nibble, Like a Mouse . . .

The other day Michael told me you could tell that Hansel and Gretel were children, because who else would see a whole house made of gingerbread and candy and decide to eat it?

Um, yeah; he's right.



Yesterday we finally finished this year's gingerbread house. It is so cool! Really, you should come see it before my girls eat all the candy off of it. I've told them they can't eat any of it until everything is way too stale to be desirable—at least a week. We'll see . . . The snow (cotton candy) is already melting today, and the snowmen are tipping over; I don't know how long it will really last.

This is our biggest gingerbread house ever. And it took the longest to make—more than a week, from mixing a triple recipe of dough, to cooking the candy windows, to putting the finishing touches on. But it looks awesome!

If you feel the urge to make a gingerbread house, click here for a recipe. (Or just use the recipe to make gingerbread men.) If you don't want to make a big ole' house, you can just admire our pictures:

putting the candy in the windows

under construction

putting on the candy decor


And, all finished:

left wing

front door and wreath

back of house

Merry Christmas!