Showing posts with label gingerbread stomp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gingerbread stomp. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2013

The Annual Gingerbread House Stomp

What boys are for


It was time. Every year, The Husband and The Brothers make a fantastic, beautiful gingerbread house and every year, when the Christmas decorations are down and stored away in the attic, when the house looks serene and organized and uncluttered, relative to its Christmas curio shop look of the previous weeks, the gingerbread house is put outside on the grass and stomped to bits.

Yes, you read that correctly. Stomped to bits in an ancient boy rite. Here are some from past years: 2008, 2009, and  2010. This year, The Brothers added a broken lacrosse stick and baseballs as the instruments of destruction, which made me very uncomfortable, but what's a woman to do in the face of so much male energy?

I took a video for your enjoyment:





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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