(The gingerbread houses came with bright green and bright pink stickers to put on them. However, they remind me of clearance tags...LOL)

I saw these little brown foam figures that looked like gingerbread houses and gingerbread people. I had to nab them for Levi and Abram to decorate, and that way it was one more holiday decoration that I could have a keepsake that would have a sweet memory of me and my boys making them.

So I layed them all on the floor, and I opened up the tubes of glitter to begin our embelishments. I handed a tube to Levi and Abram, and I explained how they would need to make faces, buttons, windows and doors, and then I would thread them all on to the gold string and hang them along the living room valance. They were excited, and so began the creativity juices flowing.

Den was sitting in the recliner reading the newspaper while were at his feet with all the goodies spread out on the carpet. As I would giggle and compliment the little faces that were being squeezed on to the gingerbread people, Den curiously would look around his newspaper to watch the progress from time to time. I could tell that he wouldn't mind joining in, but unless he was invited or felt a need he would continue being an observer.

After a while Abram began to get frustrated with adding the glitter. He quickly hopped up and stood to the side of his dad's chair and said, "Daddy, I need help. I have a weak squeezer." Den laughed and said, "What do you mean?" Abram, just as intensely, showed him his little hand with the hard plastic glitter tube and said, "My squeezer is weak, will you squeeze the tube?" After a good chuckle, Den took the tube over. Every house and every gingerbread child had a little extra something added by Daddy-O. Abram would go find one that wasn't touched by Daddy, would bring it to him, and then would find a special place for it to dry. They were quite a pair, and I thought it's just one more thing to remember when I see this garland of gingerbread hanging for years to come.