Friday, December 31, 2010

The Annual End of the Year Gingerbread House Stomp



For about the fifth or sixth year in a row, The Husband led and we both watched as our boys (and one of our oldest friends who luckily happened in at the right moment!), in true Lord of the Flies style


stomped the gingerbread house.

To bits.

Yes, I know it's weird but it's also strangely exhilarating.




this was about when I started screaming NOT TO EAT IT, ESPECIALLY NOW!

The Husband tried in vain, with gestures, to stop him from eating it.

The picture I took of Henry, running like a crazy nut down the sidewalk, hurling gingerbread, didn't come out. I guess I am thankful for that.
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16 comments:

  1. SECRET PEPPER PERSON:December 31, 2010 at 7:09 AM

    This is the BEST family tradition I've seen in a very long time. We do a ginger bread house (carport this year...it fell on the floor during construction so we had to improvise)on Christmas Eve. Perhaps we should do the stomp as well!

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  2. Big Daddy AutismDecember 31, 2010 at 7:50 AM

    Love this tradition.

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  3. Lovely WorldDecember 31, 2010 at 8:00 AM

    I love this. My daughter definitely would have found a way to eat some pieces. Happy new year!

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  4. UnknownDecember 31, 2010 at 8:14 AM

    I love this!

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  5. Ms. MoonDecember 31, 2010 at 8:19 AM

    I was just wondering the other day why we humans have such a deep love of knocking things over. And stomping them.
    Great tradition!

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  6. Alicia DDecember 31, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    what a great tradition! i might have to steal that from ya! ;)
    trying to catch up here... been gone for WEEKS!

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  7. From the KitchenDecember 31, 2010 at 9:22 AM

    Some traditions are better than others but this sounds like a good one! We are celebrating the end of the year with an earthquake, thunderstorms and tornado warnings. I don't think we'll need fireworks.

    Good wishes to you and yours.

    Best,
    Bonnie

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  8. whoDecember 31, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    what a out smoking pieces of the rubble?

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  9. UnknownDecember 31, 2010 at 11:27 AM

    I suppose stomping the one my girls made this year might leave blood stains on the ground .

    Happy New Year Elizabeth . I don't know if you celebrate big or small, but may I clink my glass with yours? Here's to what will come that we can't change, wise choices when we can and should, and hearts full of hope .

    and cranes.... many many cranes

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  10. HeatherDecember 31, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    Great stuff.Really and truly.


    Happy New Year Elizabeth.Maybe in this new year we can find sometime to get together.the distance is under an hour for me,in good traffic.seems silly not to.Let's try,okay?

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  11. rebeccaDecember 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    i love family rituals!!!!!

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  12. Kathleen ScottDecember 31, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    I'm grinning. What a FABULOUS end-of-year tradition. Out with the old!

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  13. whoDecember 31, 2010 at 4:06 PM

    and I mean smoking the crumbled cookie since with all the protestant adminisisters screaming "don't eat it now!"

    I figure eating it akin to a snowballs chance in motherfuckin hell

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  14. whoDecember 31, 2010 at 4:10 PM

    ahhhh! typo should have been a snowball's chance in heaven.

    hell is a frozen ice cold state
    and heaven is warm.

    hence Dwain's quote "the most hottest and unbearable summer I ever had was a winter in southeast heaven"

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  15. Tanya SavkoDecember 31, 2010 at 6:47 PM

    Best tradition EVER!!

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  16. MaryJanuary 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM

    This is hilarious -- what a fantastic tradition!

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