I love strategy games. I’ve played plenty that take many hours to complete. They’re probably one of my favorite things, which might be why i also enjoy chess.
My youngest loves board games/chess too. My oldest will participate but would rather do other things.
I’m sure my dislike is a statement about me and not those who like them. I think my youngest will like strategy games. My oldest, not in a million years…unless pushing boundaries and his parents’ buttons count.
I think that could be one of the disadvantages of having a singleton.
I learned chess by playing with my sibling (brother) growing up.
My plan is to teach the little one the rules and play with her while travelling.
Her school also has a chess team so she can also play there with some friends if she ends up liking it.
What did you think gold would smell like, before you learned that it smells like nothing at all?
Our future foster son is staying with us for a few days, and I overheard our 7yo talking to him in their bedroom. “Me and my parents are thinking about letting you have a Guinea pig of your own, but they’re a lot of work and a big responsibility and you’d have to promise to be careful with them. If you think you can handle that, then we will think about it.”
The 7yo is happily the youngest and normally doesn’t try to exert power over anyone else, so it was off brand for him. I think he just likes being an expert in things once in a while.
Kid: I brought this box all the way up the stairs without even touching the railing!!!
Wife: Good.
Kid: I might have your talent for being a serving maid!
Quotes supporting
“What a kid says that gets you in trouble”
My son really coveted these magnetic articulated plushes, so I wrapped each piece separately and am gifting it like this.
Of course, I then ran out of wrapping paper so I can’t wrap the box I put it in. He isn’t opening his gifts until the afternoon, so I don’t want him to see it in the morning and get anxious about it.
my HS senior started a new job this week. said she wanted a job and got one at our favorite pizza place! not in our town, but a few towns over. today I went there for lunch. good on her doing all the things to get the job on her own.
i have noticed her quietly building out a broader base for social outlets. her HS friends at her school can be a lot of hot mess/bogged down in petty immature stuff & conflict. so good for her to find ways to be out and not more wrapped up in a known swirling mess.
first local college visit is friday am!
Foster son is signed up for baseball (Monday and Wednesday evenings) and soccer (Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings). Tonight is the first baseball practice. I have my folding chair, my headphones, my sunglasses, and my resting bitch face. Anything else needed to look completely unapproachable to the other parents?
Sharp crochet needles. Yarn optional.
make sure you sit at a comfortable distance from them all. you likely planned on that already
Today my kid was excited to spot a large picture on the ground in the shape of her nintendo switch with attached joycon.
…I didn’t bother explaining that it was a baseball diamond.
It wasn’t enough. The only other mom there sidled up to me to tell her about her whole shitty life story: had covid over the winter, in the hospital for three months, got a double lung transplant so now being at baseball games is hard because of all the dust and walking to the field, her kids’ dad is a douche who sued her for sole custody but only cares about sports, he bought her a house in Cincinnati to try to get her to move back, engaged for ten years but never committed to marrying her (wonder why), her daughter got her first period a week ago today…I wish I was making any of this up. And practice went 45 minutes long, so extra time to get to know my BFF!
Next time, headphones.
I had them, but I guess they weren’t visible enough. I will bring my giant over the ear headphones next time, and maybe I’ll try to look ill too.
Maybe a mask? Catcher’s or otherwise.
Sneeze in her direction, or better yet, on her!!! That should scare the 
outta her!!!
…and to top it off, she left a pile of right next to me.
Huh, I used to seek that out at the kids’ games.
I called it ‘whats wrong with them?’ Then I’d go over and find out.
