The Sewing Mom

If you’re looking for a fun game that you can play as a whole family you might want to consider [tag]Balderdash[/tag].  We got this game years ago when my step-daughter was younger and visiting us.  She picked it out and we had a blast playing it.  Now our own daughter has found it packed away in a box and we played it last night.  Sometimes we get to laughing so hard that we forget who’s turn it is!

The player who’s turn it is is the designated Dasher and reads a word off of a card.  Each player then writes down what they think the word might mean.  It’s a totally made up definition.  The Dasher also writes down the correct definition, then mixes them all up and reads them out loud.  Each player, except for the Dasher, chooses the what they think is the real definition.  Points are then awarded to whoever chooses the real definition.  A player can also receive points for getting other players to think their “fake” definition is the real one. 

It’s a very simple game that kids who are old enough to read can play.  We had a really good time.  I think the funniest word we had last night was Gubermatrix.  I’ll leave it up to you to figure it out. 

Did you brave the Black Friday crowds? Not me! We stayed home and spent the morning putting up the Christmas tree. We bought new lights last week, unfortunately we didn’t buy enough. So, after sitting here looking at the tree partially lit and realizing that we needed to buy more lights before we could start putting the decorations on the tree, we decided to head out to the store. We were in no hurry though and the last thing I wanted to do was fight the crowds.

We wound up running a few errands that brought us close to a home center so we opted to buy our lights there. It wasn’t bad at all and I think it was late enough in the day that even the traffic wasn’t too bad. This is not to say that I didn’t do any Christmas shopping today, I did, I just did did my shopping online this morning.

I bought a few things on my daughter’s list and I narrowed down a couple of gift ideas for my hard to shop for mother-in-law. While I was looking for ideas of what to do with all the digital pictures I have, I found an awesome [tag]Photo Blanket[/tag] that I’m thinking of getting for my step-daughter. I’d love to put her new baby’s picture on it, I think she would absolutely love it. There are also [tag]photo pillows[/tag] and [tag]photo pillowcases[/tag] that I could give as gifts. I have the most amazing mother/baby photo that would look really awesome on any of these items and it’s really an easy site to use.

I’m really looking forward to the holidays this year.