Ohh we love to do puzzles around here too and can spend hours together doing one. Sometimes we talk while putting the puzzle together and then there are moments of silence.  It is nice to be able to do both!  :O)  We found a few, that we really like, at a local thrift store for only 25 cents.  Can't beat that!

I'm burning the midnight oil tonight...I'm off to bed!

xoxo Cat 

Putting puzzles together is relaxing, I think.  It's different with our grandchildren because we're wiser now then when we were raising our children.  If I had it to do over, there would be NO TV.  I was raised without one, and my siblings and I never needed to be entertained.  We made our own fun, played games, did puzzles, and had imaginations.  I feel sorry for the children of today, don't you?

RYC: No, I'm not 50, I'm in my sixties.  Passed that "problem" many years ago anyway due to surgery.  Sometimes I can be intense, and that can put my motor on high idle.  When a person can physically work that off, it's fine.  My problem is my body no longer functions well enough to work it off.  That's when I'm better off just sitting down and writing.  Once I go inside to the place only God & I share, I can confront the anxiety and God helps me relax through writing about it.  I don't really understand it, I just know it works for me.

My kids couldnt sit still long enough,or had the attention span to play games.I wish we would've played more games too! We did alot of outdoor things when they were growing up too.We do what we can do.I think its great your doing this with your grandchildren!

You remind me of something I need to do...we occasionally have a BIG puzzle (1000 piece) that the whole family adds their $.02 to...and my youngest recently asked if we could put one out.  We don't have a large house, so we can't leave them out 365 days a year. 

We are having GAME NIGHT tonight with Aunt Debbie and Cousin Andrew - yeah!

Mrs B

hi there!  just wanted to let you know that my daughter made it back safely to the U.S yesterday from her mission trip to Thailand.  what a day! what a reunion!  tho the time will be short here at home, we will enjoy all the moments it affords. thank you for praying for us as we travelled and as she has been gone all these months!  i can't tell you what a joy it is to my mother's heart to lay eyes on her, and wrap my arms around her once again.

ooh! i love games and puzzles. recently i bought a box of jigsaw puzzles at wal-mart. there were 10 of them in the box. we've got 5 done in a year and i'm leaving them up and stacked on an unused desktop til i get all 10 done!  SCRABBLE and UNO are the games of choice around here.  we used to play all kinds of board games. in fact, sara said last nite that she not only missed the american cuisine, and family of course, but playing SCRABBLE with us too! 

We also did not play nearly enough games when our children were younger.  The wonderful thing, I think, about games is that it's just a fun way to spend time together and have general chit chat and laughter, without having to have a specific topic of conversation.