Monday, December 29, 2008
Marry Christmas to Everyone!!! I hope you all are enjoying your post-Christmas-pre-New Year week.
At the moment I'm making a bean soup from leftover ham from Christmas. We still have so much food left over, but I just could not let good ham bone go to waste! This is the first time I'm making bean soup myself, and I am so excited about it! It always takes me back to the kindergarten when we had the best bean soup ever!!! Yup, we actually had stews and soups in kindergarten back in the day and in my lovely country.
Now, as for cookies goes, I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but I've managed to find one from last year, and the finished product looks very similar:
I do have a bunch of picture of the process of making these:
My kids work hard!
Yeah, and there is my shirtless kid, too! He just popped in.
So, then I decided to try to make a Gingerbread House with my boys, and let me tell you, there was no end to frustration there. I seriously doubt my sanity after that debacle. It all started nice and innocent with me making an icing, and than it turns into this:
The house just would not stand up!
So, I abandon my pursuit of gingerbread house, and I decide to make a Christmas tree kit instead. I mean, how hard can it be to stack up bunch of stars one on top of another. Deep down my ego was deeply wounded that I could not get that house to stand up. Maybe I should not have used last years kit after all.
So this is how our tree looked like:
I was still upset about that house, so I decided to give it another try:
Do not look at it, do not touch it, do not breath at it!
Then, some kid action was in order, and we have our final product:
It looks just like on the picture, doesn't it!?! Well, maybe a little on a sad and sloppy side. If you are wondering what is all the green on the roof, that was a leftover icing from the tree:-). Now, about an hour later my older kid comes running to me that 'roof fell of the house'! So, I just let them eat the candy.
Ms. D.
So, I abandon my pursuit of gingerbread house, and I decide to make a Christmas tree kit instead. I mean, how hard can it be to stack up bunch of stars one on top of another. Deep down my ego was deeply wounded that I could not get that house to stand up. Maybe I should not have used last years kit after all.
So this is how our tree looked like:
I was still upset about that house, so I decided to give it another try:
Ms. D.
2 Comments:
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December 30, 2008 at 6:53 AM
OMGoodness...that is SO cute! See, that Martha tendency just is intrinsic:-) My house didn't have that kinda hominess:-) The cookies look divine, as always. And the gingerbread house is cute...fallin' down or not! One only needs the darn thing to stand up for a minute while you find the camera and take the pics anyway. LOL. Great job, Ms D!December 31, 2008 at 5:57 AMThanks B. I try, but as much as I do try it is never quiet Martha-ish. I prefer to give everything my own "sloppy" touch:-).
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