Mr and Mrs Awesome

We did some ginger bread houses tonight. I'm so bad at getting the houses to actually stay together. Next year I'm buying the ones out together from Costco, that you just decorate!! Decorating them is super fun, but even more fun when decorating them didn't make the house collapse!  I mean we still had a good time, but there were some stressful moments!! Ginger bread houses are like sugar cookies. You get so excited to do them, and somehow forget about how much of a disaster the last time you tried was!! We'll still keep making sugar cookies and ginger bread houses though... I'm just going to make it much easier on ourselves next year! Buy the pre built houses at Costco right after Halloween, before they sell out!! Happy Holiday guys! I whine, and I wasn't the only one (at least not in my head haha)! But we had fun and laughed while we whined, and that's what matters!

 David had an idea for the elf on the shelf tonight... Oh boy did he have fun! Kahlan is going to freak out! I love that he's so involved in everything our kids care about! He's just such a good Dad. Haha he it's gonna have to put this back together tomorrow! Good thing he lives taking stuff apart and putting it back together 

I haven't seen a lot of opinion articles saying that we should throw our children's elf on the shelf in the trash in 2020. This is my reasoning for why I think that is the worst idea for your children.   My daughter is seven and she loves her elf on the shelf named Scarlett. Her elf has extended its family to include a stuffed Santa Claus named Santy as her husband, and a two of Kahlan's old toys as children they adopted.  Kahlan has wanted an elf on the shelf since before we could afford one. So a Santa Claus that I found at an outlet for $5 became her elf on the shelf a few years ago. Last year we could afford a real elf on the shelf, so we got one. When Scarlett appeared, Santee was also out as a decoration so Kahlan said oh my gosh he found a wife! Later during the season when her toys ended up near the elf on the shelf and Santee she suggested something that later ended up with me writing her a letter that they had adopted those as their children. The idea for her prob