The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love Christmas! Not as much as my wife, but still plenty enough to always be looking forward to celebrating the Saviours birth! As this is our first year as a married couple, I figured it would be fun to really ramp it up with some fun activities to indulge in while some of our favourite Christmas movies play along in the background.

We started on Sunday by putting up our teeny-tiny Christmas tree, covering it in gold and red baubles and then setting up our little ornament table (consisting of a couple of bits and pieces we bought on sale last year when we were engaged and some recent acquisitions) and finally finishing but putting decorations [essentially] anywhere we could fit them in our tiny two-person flat. We even hung up our stockings and a fabulously awesome advent calendar mother dearest bought for us during a recent visit. It was a blast! A blast containing more holiday cheer than you could poke a stick at!

Then on Wednesday, we went about making us some gingerbread dough for- yep, you guessed it- a gingerbread house! We watched Christmas with the Kranks for that one and it rocked!

However, the big challenge came last night- putting together our house. I'm not going to lie, I didn't think it would work. I had a gut feeling the roof would cave in with Home Alone blasting in the background. For starters, we were using a dough recipe from one book and then a house template from another one. At first it looked like the two wouldn't match and we would run out of dough. Instead, we just rolled our dough thinner and hoped it would have the strength to bear weight. On top of that, nobody I spoke to seemed to have ever made one that stood of its own accord. It seemed a deliciously doomed enterprise.

However, nobody else I discussed this Christmas adventure with had my wife, and my wife is magic! She rolled the dough to perfection, cut it all our with the precision of some alien robot and sluced thick royal icing over the back of the thin walls as reinforcement for additional supporting power.

All in all, and much to my delight (and surprise), it worked! Mid way through Home Alone 2 we successfully fixed our roof and chimney to our scrumptious walls.

Lo and behold our first Gingerbread House:

So now we wait until tomorrow to decorate our delicious dwelling! Will it stand under the weight of countless candies? Will the roof stay up another night? Find out in the next update of Nate Radio!!

In the mean time, talk about Christmas and how awesome it is!