Lil' Miss' Gingerbread House

She is very proud of her little house that we made together at school but also very upset

when I told her there was no way I would let her eat it.  So, we made another one, from a kit,

that she could eat.  I think her first one is cuter.

I had believed, hoped, that the kit would spare me the labor intensive baking and building

of a homemade gingerbread house.  Well, a certain Lil' Miss now thinks that we should

build one from scratch.  We seem to have gone from a gingerbread house to a village.  I

have heard it takes a village to raise a child but I never knew that a child could

raise a village.