The making of the gingerbread house was a true event each Christmas. Knowing that she wasn't a Martha Stewart type, this young mother still decided to dare and enter the world of gingerbread architecture design. Ten hours later, she crossed her icing smudged arms as she admired her gingerbread house. She was glad that it stood up for thirty minutes at least! Her kids would time the gingerbread house's standing time each year. Those kids were proud to think that there mom would never give up. She wanted her kids to feel that they always had a gingerbread house at Christmas, even if it wasn't ready of Better Homes & Gardens' front cover. It was good enough for them.
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The tradition still stands.
Gumdrops and rasberry jellies
Dots of color
on white sugary snow...
Outlines of windows
outlines of doors...
tasty fence posts
with scrumptious shrubbery
sparkling with frost
Bright in color
Festive in spirit
Cold in season
yet warm in soul-
Holiday cheer
shines from within
and before the day's over
the glow comes from
sparkling eyes and
sticky little faces
and the house
stands
undecorated
again
The making of the gingerbread house was a true event each Christmas. Knowing that she wasn't a Martha Stewart type, this young mother still decided to dare and enter the world of gingerbread architecture design. Ten hours later, she crossed her icing smudged arms as she admired her gingerbread house. She was glad that it stood up for thirty minutes at least! Her kids would time the gingerbread house's standing time each year. Those kids were proud to think that there mom would never give up. She wanted her kids to feel that they always had a gingerbread house at Christmas, even if it wasn't ready of Better Homes & Gardens' front cover. It was good enough for them.
A story I used to tell my own children-
The Gingerbread man made it home just before dark. His little sweet cookie children waited to greet him at the door. The house needed some work he noticed on his way. A few loose gum drops could reek havoc on all who entered. Sagging bread walls meant moisture control was needed, so he made a mental note to get up first thing in the morning and build a reinforced cookie ladder and get up on that roof. After all giant season would soon be here and he knew that was another chapter in his sweet, but sugar coated world...
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