If you Read The Gignerbread Man to your Kids

If you read The Gingerbread Man book to your kids (for the 100th time this week) they will want to make a gingerbread man out of play-doh. 

So you get out the play-doh and cookie cutters and the play and reenact the story.  The play-doh reminds them of the gingerbread ornaments you made last year and they ask to make those again.

So you whip some up.  

The yummy smell of cinnamon and apple sauce reminds the kids of the real gingerbread man cookies they made with their Omah and so naturally they ask to make those too. 

So you mix, call your neighbor to borrow molasses (a crucial ingredient), roll, cut out gingerbread men, bake, and repeat.

 

Once the gingerbread men come out of the oven they ask to eat one. 

And chances are if you let them eat a gingerbread man cookie they will ask you to read the book, (again, for the 101th time).