We have a rather unique Christmas tradition in our family. Some people like to get those gingerbread house kits and decorate them. We like to decorate them and then turn them into a cookie catastrophe. We call them “gingerbread crime scenes” but they’re really more along the lines of Shrek meets Apocalypse Now.

It’s something we started doing when our oldest child was probably 10 years old so she wouldn’t feel bad about accidentally wrecking her gingerbread house. It just became an annual tradition after that and we have a lot of fun doing it. They actually seem to get more creative every year.

This years episode is “Gummy Bears vs. Peanut Butter Perps” (the ‘ginger bread men’ are actually peanut butter cookies).