Creating a Gingerbread House

 I had the girls here the other day, there was no school and so we had lots of time.  Time to bring out the gingerbread house project that had been sitting on the shelf since last winter.    It looks so easy .............but there are always some challenges.  First of all, building the house.  Sometimes the icing just doesn't hold like it should and so some patience is required while the icing cement hardens when all we want to do is get to the decorating and the candy.  It was a messy fun time, with each girlie doing her own side, gramma helping out as needed, applying icing and supervising, giving advice and cautioning that if they eat all the candy, there won't be enough for the house..........and finishing up and cleaning up  at the end.  It was fun though and we have a nice little house to display as part of my Christmas decorations.   I hope the girls had fun too.