just add super glue

How we turned Wine Wednesday into Wine Involved Architecture Saturday. Before starting you must turn on the N'sync Christmas CD (released in 1998), which I still have. Put a Christmas movie in the DVD player. Have wine delivered and pour a couple of glasses. Make sure chili is simmering nicely. If all of this is in place you are ready to begin, well at least we were ready.

1. Unpack all pieces and super glue all the broken ones back together. Yes, we used super glue. Two tubes. We didn't want to use the icing, as it might have seeped out a made our fabulous gingerbread house look bad.
2. Knead the pack of icing for one minute, glance at directions on the box, and begin assembling.
3. Clearly Camille and I studied the wrong thing in college, we should have been engineering students.
4. Add pizzaz! Our tactic -- Camille did one side of the roof and I did the other. We added rhinestones to look like lights and snowflake confetti to interpret a white Christmas.
5. Derrick gets home and is just dying to join the fun. Being the architect/civil engineer he is, he gets marshmallows and scissors and makes icesicle lights, and a Christmas tree for the front yard.
6. Reveal my side of the roof.
7. Add a cork as the base of the Christmas tree, because what represents our weekly gatherings more than wine? A must to be included for our Gingerbread house!

Afterwards we enjoyed hot and spicy bowls of deer chili, with peanut butter sandwich (The chili with peanut butter sandwich is something Camille and Derrick grew up with. Whenever chili was served for lunch at school, a peanut butter sandwich accompanied it. I gave in and tried it. Not bad actually. I might try it again. Then we sat back and watched the Grinch. Happy holidays!