Fun and Games

Our family new year's resolution this year was to have game night on Monday evenings and music night on Tuesday evenings. We've actually done a pretty good job keeping those evenings reserved for games and music, and it has been about the best tradition we've ever started.

Tonight, Garrett chose to play Old Maid (several games are a little too advanced for him and he ends up playing with his tractors or wandering around the house, so everyone was a good sport and participated in the game so he could enjoy game night, too). I think we ended up having more fun playing Old Maid than any of the other games we've played so far.  You probably had to have been here to really appreciate the hilarity of the evening, but I'm pretty sure the neighbors 1/4 mile away could hear our rowdy laughter. Somehow, our Old Maid card is ripped and crumpled and VERY obvious. She made her way around the table - not the traditional way, by being chosen from the hand of cards, but by being passed under the table by siblings old enough to know better. None of the younger kids would pick the card, so the older ones, trying to get the game to move along, would pass it along to someone else so an unsuspecting player would end up with it.

After a couple games of Old Maid, we moved on to a few hands of Rook - the noise level and laughter carried over to that game too.