Gingerbread Foreclosure

While shopping at my favorite store TARGET this week, I decided to pick up one of those Gingerbread House making kits. I don't know what it is about Target, but I have to make a weekly trip to this store??? Anyone else have that problem??? Target, however, failed to mention that the adorable Gingerbread House I was purchasing was in foreclosure. Isaac was chomping at the bit to put this house together (artsy things are his gig), and I told him MULTIPLE times throughout the day that we had to wait for Karson to get home. Note to self: next year keep the house in the van until Karson gets home. Once she arrived, we all put on our Extreme Home Edition shirts (HAH) and got to work. I immediately noticed that BOTH of the roof parts had cracks down the center (of all places). Major bummer. For a split second, I thought about taking the house back but simply could not do that to Isaac. He could've very well suffered from some sort of medical condition had I told him he had to wait any longer (seizure, aneurysm, convulsions).

So we pressed on and assembled our house. I guess with the poor economy, even this Gingerbread House needed some TLC. Speaking of houses needing TLC and on a completely different note, I am lovin' the new A&E show Hoarders. My sweet friend Karen mentioned it on facebook, and I've been DVRing it ever since. Being a minimalist, organized, type A kind of gal, this show makes my jaw drop much like the roof of our Gingerbread House.

Thank goodness our kids didn't seem to care one bit about the dilapidated home and kept decorating.

I had to divide all the candies out to each child.

Our finished product. I mean, really, what can you expect for $9.99. It's no mansion, but at least, it's edible.

And three of the happiest kids I know =)!