On an afternoon this week, when I felt particularly tired (oh, do you all remember this horrible tired-stage of the pregnancy?) and had already spent the morning doing crazy chores and exhausting tasks, the older girls asked to build our gingerbread bunny hatch together.
At first, I didn’t want to.
Why?
Because I was tired and I didn’t want to do the cleanup and I just wanted to spend Lucia’s naptime doing, well, something a lot cleaner than working with icing with a six year old and a three year old. But I knew “No” was the wrong answer.
And so we pulled out the bunny hutch, pieced the little gingerbread house together, spread out the candies, whipped up some icing and had a lovely-sugar-rush-afternoon together.
Yes, it was messy.
Yes, I was the one who cleaned everything up.
But the girls loved it (and so did I!) and that’s what counts … right?
And I must say, they are getting really good at decorating!
P.S. For those of you who asked 🙂 , I purchased this little cute gingerbread set at our local WalMart. 🙂 Go ahead, have some candy-coated fun with your kids!
by Gigi
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