Thinking Outside the Box

The other day we went to visit Heidlebeere and her family again.  This time Grandma brought the stuff to make little "gingerbread" houses with the kids.  It was a simple idea, use frosting to stick graham crackers around a little milk carton and then decorate it with candy. That turned out to be a lot of fun.  And the kids, of course, enjoyed it, even the littlest one.  As little Miss Bluebird worked on hers she was very careful to make sure she got as much of the candy decorations on the house as possible.

No snitching any of the candy for her - it all needed to get on the house. And it was turning out very well, too.

But there was one piece of candy so unspeakably yucky that it had no place on the house.  If you'll look in the front, lower rightish corner you'll see a piece of black licorice. Being the terrible, awful, icky candy that licorice is, Bluebird did not want it on her house.

Now grandma had set Bluebird up with a sandwich sized baggie full of white frosting to use as "cement" to stick all the candy on the house.  And this young lady was very generous with the frosting as she applied each piece of candy to the house.  Still at the end, when everything was on the house, she still had quite a bit of frosting left in the bag.  Of course, this frugal young lady did not want to waste all that frosting so I told her that if she'd eat the licorice she could have it.  That didn't go over very well.

But then she was smitten with some inspiration.  An idea that would make the impossible task of eating that dreadful piece of licorice doable.

She loaded up that little piece of licorice with so much frosting that you couldn't see it anymore.  Surely that would make it edible, right?

Maybe not so much.  Nevertheless, she got it down.

And, having earned her reward, the frosting was all the more delicious! What a silly kid she is!

And her house turned out very well, too!  All three of them had a lot of fun with it.  And their houses lasted until the next day before they were eaten.  It was a lot of fun.