Hidden stories in children’s puzzle

Once upon a time in a land far far away the Gingerbread family were enjoying the Spring sunshine in the garden of their candy house.

While everybody was putting on a brave face and smiling, Gingerbread Mummy was hiding a dark secret, one Gingerbread Daddy suspected but kept to himself for the sake of the Gingerbread children.

You see, earlier in the year Gingerbread Mummy gave birth to a Jelly baby. Mr Jelly was a close family friend, he went to school with Gingerbread Daddy, but for the past nine months Mr Jelly has been nowhere to be seen.

Mr and Mrs Gingerbread have an older daughter, called Molly Gingerbread. She is a gingerbread child, just like Mr and Mrs Gingerbread. But the second child in the family is a Jelly.

When Jelly was born, Mr Gingerbread looked angry at Mrs Gingerbread “how have you had a Jelly Baby when we are Gingerbread” he asked her, quizzically, but Mrs Gingerbread was very tired from all that pushing and so just started crying and then pretended to fall asleep.

Little Johnny Gingerbread, who is really a Jelly, is now six months old and every time Mr Gingerbread starts to ask how he came to be a Jelly, Mrs Gingerbread starts crying, or finds something else to do, so Mr Gingerbread just avoids the subject.

A puzzle tale

I found the pictures shown on a children’s puzzle we got for our three year old son. They have a gingerbread dog, a gingerbread child, a candy house and they are both gingerbread people. So how did they come to have a jelly baby?

Obviously they could have adopted but there is a slightly uncomfortable look on gingerbread mummy’s face and daddy is looking a bit stiff next to mummy.

He is a bit like a politician after a sex scandal saying “we love each other and I’m grateful to my wife for her support at such a difficult time”.

It’s wonderful how you can find tales in the strangest of places. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into a sweet puzzle made for children.

Originally published at Up Your Ego.