Meg texted yesterday asking if we could make some time to work with Griffin during this latest round of virtual learning. Of course we said yes. And because it will last at least a week, we decided to split the days between us. Me first.
After the math lesson, there was but one word problem for G to solve and record in his online classroom folder. Leaving a full half hour until the next class.
“What should we play?” he asked.
There wasn’t enough time for Travelopoly (about which I have yet to write another post), so we played Monopoly Deal … then Skip-Bo after Science class was over … and finally, two rounds of Sorry! after G’s PE class at the end of the day.
Suffice it to say I love games as much as G does, but I especially love Sorry! It has just the right degree of strategy mixed with luck to make it an open question of who will win until the very end. G won a game, then I won a game. The best kind of ending.
Thinking it would make a good patch, I pulled out the Sorry! that our girls played with. It’s in an “old-fashioned” rectangular box with a single-fold board …
Looking closely, I discovered the pale gray green background was a close match to one of my Burnley & Trowbridge linen samples. So I ironed a patch 1.75 inches by 1.75 inches square and glue-stitched the edges down.
Then I sketched in the familiar Start and Home icons and chose some yellow, red, blue and green floss. Not necessarily to match, just to suit. I used two strands to stitch the colors, and a single strand of white for the board title.
As I stitched, I thought about an image I saw in this morning’s paper. It’s one I’ve likely seen in the past week of Senators Cruz and Hawley …
but this time I noticed Cruz’s mask was emblazoned with the iconic “Come and take it” image, which is well-known in Texas …
Needless to say, in the context of current events, it is beyond shame-full that Ted Cruz chose to wear this mask, this message on the day the Capitol was besieged.
This is not the good sportsmanship we try to model for our grandkids, but gamesmanship, or worse, brinksmanship … a dangerous course to chose.
And now the second impeachment of Trump is fait accompli. It will surely take much skill and more than a little luck to get through the week ahead.
May all be well … may all be safe …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
(((Liz))) love your patch play!
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having fun
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Well, this is a fun one!!
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games were such a large part of my childhood … not always a good thing as my dad was super-competitive, but I believe I learned more about logic and strategy by playing games than I ever did in a classroom … not to mention empathy
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got to thinking, from watching you here, and asked Jenny how Monopoly ends….and
we stood and thought and came to the same conclusion that we really didn’t know
because we never got that far. i think we were Yatzee people.
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as part of making the “new” game I rewrote the rules to suit myself … including this:
“The object of the game is to have lots of fun. It’s a bonus if you’re the player with the most money and property at the end of the game, but honestly, everyone’s a winner (Nana rules).”
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Hi LA – grand work on the on-line learning – lovely that your square could reflect the experience. I suspect the facemask could almost be seen as inciting folk to violence – sad. Let us continue to work for peace and harmony. Go well. B
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doing the work is a forever thing …
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Sorry! Is my game, too, for the same reasons. One summer Blue & I tally marked the inside of the lid each time we played…dozens of times. We had a game cupboard growing up, now it’s the game shelf. There were a few cooperative games that we loved, too… if only everyone wanted to play those kind of games.
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exactly … would love to know the other games you loved as we’re always on the lookout for new ways to play
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Here’s a few… Harvest Time & Scrambled States (also a fun book) for the early years, Carcassonne & Cribbage filled the middle, now it’s Ticket to Ride, Catan & Monopoly & still Cribbage.
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I remember reading the Scrambled States way back when I was still teaching … this will be great for birthdays this year!
And we love playing cribbage, but the other games aren’t familiar … yet! Thanks for putting me on to them.
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I forgot to mention Rivers, Roads & Rails, another favorite for elementary age & up. Carcassonne is a more complicated version of it- with tiles that create a new land, water & kingdom map every time.
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Thanks again … there are so many games out there, it’s really helpful to know which ones are worthwhile!
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I don’t remember playing Sorry. Although I don’t get to play often these days, I love Scrabble. No real surprise…and words are so important. 🙂
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Hmmmm … Scrabble. Now what could I do with that I wonder?
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I can see the memory link will pop out at you when you look back at this unique one! I enjoy games when they aren’t too competitive; but my preference is jigsaws – which can be solitary or slightly communal. I like your rules. Well spotted re that mask – boldly displaying such signs is not good; but more folk are beginning to see and put things together together I hope…But yes, the forever work continues.
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The self-assurance of the plotters is stunning, but hopefully it will turn out to be hubris that leads to the downfall of the movement.
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I was remembering a game that my grands liked to play when they were around 6: it was a United States bingo game; each state had an icon of what the state was known for, landmarks, agriculture, wildlife etc. My grand kids are vegetarian so when they would get the following game pieces:
Iowa with a hog, Montana with cattle or Virginia with ham, they would roll around on the floor, clutching their stomachs, moaning and groaning…”hams” of a different sort!
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Good morning Marti … I just saw you over at Hazel’s … Happy (belated) Anniversary to you and R … and please keep those grandtwin stories coming … they’re such a delightful pair!
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