A box came in the mail from Isa the other day and when I first opened it, I thought it was a box of cookies so I immediately let the boys start eating them.  Then, I realized that underneath the first layer of broken bits were sheets of gingerbread perfectly intact.  After most of the roof had been eaten, it dawned on me that it was a gingerbread house making kit.  So, I stashed the rest away for a rainy day.  Today was that rainy day and the boys constructed their first house with the uneaten parts.  They are very very proud of themselves.

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