Speaking of de-Christmasing...  It took all kinds of convincing, and litereally  over an hour of my best mom convincing, to get the Girl to dispose of this gingerbread house.  Finally, after promising to take "more than one" picture and "put it on the blog" did the gingerbread get into the garbage - with a fond farewell of "Good bye, gingerbread.  You were the best house I ever built, in my whole entire life."