Gingerbread House

So, you have all seen the boxes of gingerbread houses in the stores, perhaps, you have tried them yourselves. They look so easy; the gingerbread is already made and cut and you just have to put it together and then decorate the house. Not as easy as it sounds. Hopefully, you have not gathered all the kids around the box and gotten them all excited about decorating a gingerbread house and realized the first step is attach the walls together and then wait several hours for the icing to dry - what FUN! Then attach the roof and wait several more hours. Why doesn't it say this on the outside of the box?
Well, Ben and I had no such expectations this year, we knew it would take a while. I made the icing and we put the walls together. I waited 50 minutes instead of 60 and when we put the roof on the walls fell in. Back to the beginning - assemble the walls with lots of icing and wait. Put on the roof and wait. We started this on Christmas Eve and there just wasn't enough time so we let it sit overnight and then decorated the house on Christmas night. I put a hole in the special bag they gave us for decorating so we had to use ziploc bags. We got holes in these, too. We ran out of icing so I had to make more. But we prevailed and here is the result. It actually looks better than we thought it would.
Maybe we'll try again next year; I think they have a gingerbread train...

Laurie