The Gingerbread Houses

This is not one of my favorite traditions. I know we're gonna do it every year, and every year I just want to get it over with. The houses never seem to stay together very well, the kids eat more of the candy than they put on the house and even more than they eat ends up on the floor, and afterwards you have this big lump of sugar that takes up space until you can get the kids to forget about it long enough to throw it away. Well this year I used my hot glue gun to put the house together, much easier! And we didn't even make the houses until Christmas eve and they were thrown away by the day after Christmas. Not so bad. The kids did enjoy decorating them, and Charlee enjoyed eating 5 lbs of candy.