A Gingerbread Nightmare

I'm not sure what persuaded me to buy a clearanced gingerbread house set after Christmas, but today the boys talked me into letting them try it. Well, I couldn't get the walls to stay together and neither the boys nor I had the patience to keep at it, so we just laid everything flat and decorated the flat pieces. The icing is absolutely sickening sweet and combined with the candies that the boys have been sneaking while decorating, I can sense a lot of hyperactivity at the Hagen house later this afternoon.