Christmas in June

Ollie had Thursday off and it was stormy outside so we needed a fun rainy day activity to do with Genevieve. I was cleaning out the pantry and found a gingerbread house kit that Ollie had bought in December, but because life got pretty crazy we never got around to making it. So now we had a rainy day activity. Oh, and don't worry, it hadn't expired; the box said it was good until 2010. Genevieve was very excited as she saw all the goodies we got out to make the house - M&Ms, marshmallows, chocolate chips, candies and icing. When we opened the box we found some of the pieces of the gingerbread house had broken so we weren't sure exactly how this was going to work out, but Ollie & Genevieve worked hard to put the house together anyway. Unfortunately, like the weather that day, the house didn't weather the storm. It collapsed. That didn't bother Genevieve in the least bit, she was having so much fun decorating and eating the gingerbread. We decided to make a letter "G" with all of our goodies instead and all ended well.