A New Year’s Eve Recap
January 3, 2006
Cliff Note version:
We made a gingerbread house.
We ate lots of food.
I drank lots of wine.
My husband drank more.
Children drank lots of “champagne” and acted like frat boys in training, having burping contests and making slly toasts.
We played games.
We watched the ball drop.
We went to bed at 12:01.
It was good.
Look how happy I am here with my wine.
I needed the wine after trying to help my children decorate their gingerbread house. It hurt my anal retentive nature to watch them sticking the candy on with no regard for aesthetics. I knew I had to step away when I heard myself saying, “What about the plan? You need to have a well thought out plan for putting the candy on the house. You just can’t go and put the candy on all willy-nilly.”
I was informed, in no uncertain terms, that the plan was to put as much candy on the house as it was physically capable of holding. And that if I didn’t like the plan I should have made my own gingerbread house. I might just do that next year. That will show them. Also, the term “willy-nilly” is not one to use if you want to be taken seriously.
Here is the gingerbread house on New Year’s Day, just before my children turned from sweet little children to drooling sugar junkies, willing to maim their siblings in exchange for their fix.
We played a game we invented called Trivial Pursuit: Physical Edition. This can best be described as an intellectual game punctuated by periods of violence. The basic gist of this game is that I read the questions out loud and the children shout out the answers. The first person to shout the correct answer gets a point. After one person gets several answers in a row correct, the person standing next to him is compelled to sucker punch that person that several times while screaming, “It isn’t fair!”, “He is stealing my answers” (telepathically, I suppose), “I can’t hear! He is shouting too loud!” or some variant thereof.
We made tin can stilts and had races on them. Lots of fun. And the two year old discovered that they made effective weapons should someone have the misguided notion that they would like a turn walking on the stilts.
And by the end of New Year’s Day, the gingerbread house looked like this.
It was good.
Happy 2006.
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So I guess it didn’t really matter where the candy was placed. Ha! Ha! (laughing with you, not at you)
January 2nd, 2006 at 10:30 pmIf you need help making your own anal retentive, perfectly planned gingerbread house next year, I’ll help! And then, of course, I will help eat it.
January 3rd, 2006 at 2:45 amIsn’t it nice how wine makes everything a little better?
By the way, I tried a gingerbread house a few years ago, and it sucked BIG TIME. Brent laughed for days at the crappiness of it.
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:20 am“This can best be described as an intellectual game punctuated by periods of violence.”
So it’s really the best of both worlds then, right?
I saw willy nilly all the time.
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:59 amIs the roof tiled with shredded wheat with icing sugar on it?? If so, surely (even with the icing sugar) the shredded wheat cancels out the candy, turning the whole edifice into a balanced meal?
Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 amAnnalise,
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:45 amYES! Those are frosted mini wheats. It was the only thing that I was able to have my way!
Well, no wonder your kiddos are so beautiful. I mean, just look at you!
January 3rd, 2006 at 2:06 pmMy goodness! In the picture of you holding your daughter it looks like you could be her older sister! Your family is beautiful!
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:50 pmThe gingerbread house looks yummy.
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:57 pmGlad to hear you all had fun while bringing in the new year.
Happy New Year!!
I haven’t thought of tin can stilts, I think we called them Romper Stompers, since I was a kid! I can’t wait to try it out with my kids this weekend. Thanks for the idea!
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:28 pmYOUR HOUSE HAS FROSTED MINIWHEATS ON IT!
January 8th, 2006 at 6:26 pm