Winter Break Fun?

So, what do you do with a houseful of kids over Christmas break?
You make Gingerbread Houses!!!

Josh says the green ones tasted like Mango!















Then there's always the "let-them -use-the-digital-camera" kind of fun!

I have TONS of pictures of the inside roof of the suburban, people asleep who are also drooling, extreme (and usually fuzzy) close-ups of the dogs, my kids nasal cavities, things that look like something I don't want to know about...

This particular idea can last for hours!

Except this plan doesn't always work real well with boys that are still in the "potty humor" stage of development - which apparently kicks in around age 4 and doesn't end until age... Well, I'll just have to get back with you on THAT one!














Then, when the Gingerbread Houses have all been eaten, and the camera has had its day, you let DAD take the kids on one of their "Grand Adventures" up to the snow.

Hopefully, they will be gone most of the day, and YOU get to have the house all to yourself!

Ah, now that's what I call an extremely wonderful Christmas present! : )

Except the one year they rolled down the mountain top! That maybe seemed like it wasn't gonna be such a "Grand Adventure", but you have to look on the bright side - it can ALWAYS be worse - at least I didn't have to spend my New Year's Day attending six funerals!!!

They all walked away from that "Grand Adventure" - bloody, terrified, shoeless and freezing cold, but they did walk away - right to the emergency room for seven sets of stitches! Okay, so maybe some of them limped away.















Julia really wanted to go this year, but made sure she had a blood oath from her father first that there would be NO mountains involved this time!


Poor Dad! You have one little accident and they never let you live it down. : )