Wednesday, December 30, 2009

break down these walls that we've built

so my sister and i had the brilliant idea that it ould be fun to make homemade gingerbread houses from scratch. none of that graham cracker stuff... real gingerbread. oh. my. god. it was a fiasco. but a successful one. is that even possible??

so we made the dough and stuff yesterday, but didnt get a chance to build the houses because my brothers sleep early and we started a little late. i shouldve known it was doomed from the start because i couldnt find my usual gingerbread recipe. i had to use a different one and the dough came out a little different than usual. it was still good, but it wasnt mine.

then, today we did the building. we made two houses. one boy and one girl worked on each and it was originally going to be a contest. i stopped that idea, though, because we were basically eyeballing the cutting of the pieces yesterday so i had a feeling it was going to get a little messed up. understatement of the year. while i was putting together my house, my sister was having the mother of all hard times with hers. she was trying not to put too much frosting so that it would be healthier. yes, im surprised she's related to me, too. so hers keeps collapses so she adds more frosting and its getting messy and breaking and shes getting super annoyed. she gave up three times.

mine was built and ready for the decorating while anisah's was still in pieces. so we said both boys should just decorate mine. in the midst of the decorating, someone used a little too much pressure and the whole house came falling down. extremely irritating. i start building it back up against its will because it apparently enjoyed being a pile of rubble. while mine was trying to stay dead, anisah's suddenly decided to live. when hers was up, i stopped trying to make a traditional house and ended up with something that looked kind of like those chinese houses. then the boys started decorating again. near the end, anisah's collapses. again. we didnt even try to resurrect it.

they are the two saddest gingerbread houses i have ever seen. the gingerbread turned out good though. and it all tasted good i was told. and the boys had fun. so though the whole thing was a disaster, it was kind of a success too?

*Momentum - The Hush Sound

4 comments:

  1. I've always wanted to make a gingerbread house but threw it into the Impossible Unless You're A Professional With Magic Powers bucket.

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  2. i think i may agree with you now, but i kinda wanna try it again. maybe without the boys, though.

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  3. i will prove you both wrong and build an AMAZING gingerbread house...once our brothers or rather brother... are back at your house...lol

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  4. i said i could do it without the brothers... if i just waited a bit after building it for it to dry a little, it wouldve worked, but the boys needed to sleep. now, its like freakin cement. i picked it up from the point at the top of those china houses for over a minute and it didnt break.

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