It's always cute to see what things have made an impression on the kids. This year, Madge had told us how much she looked forward to doing a gingerbread house. Who knew! Fortunately, she told me with enough advance notice so that we could order one on Amazon.com (such an apropos website for us Amazonians). The kids had a blast putting it together. Unfortunately, some of the pieces for the roof broke in the mail, but we were able to do a repair job. Another difficulty of celebrating Christmas in the tropics is that we can't leave the gingerbread house out. The many, many, many ants (thousands of species) around here love anything sweet. Thus our gingerbread house is sitting in the storage freezer until we devour it after 3 Kings day.
