Going Nowhere

We got this new game about a month ago, in anticipation of the Christmas season.  It's "A Christmas Story Card Scramble," which is a little bit different for us as far as gameplay is concerned.  We tried it out today and it was about an hour or so - Madison and Daddy tried first, and then Mommy joined us for another round.  The basic idea is to collect matching cards, which are the very thing that move you around the board as well.  We had fun with it, although the printed instructions didn't quite cover all the game play.  There were still a few questions towards the end, but we winged it and had a good time.  Of course we had Christmas music playing and the lights on and all that.

We did not, however, go anywhere today.  Daddy went to the mailbox once.  And late morning, the three of us ventured out onto the porch where we waved goodbye to the grandparents, who were off on their first leg of the journey home.  Recently, they've decided to make the trip in two parts, stopping halfway along the trip to around Adel, Georgia or so.

It did rain today, and that sort of played a part in our decision to not go too far.  After all, going to see lights in the rain doesn't sound like too much fun?  It's a cold rain, too.  So yeah, let's just stay inside today, okay?

Besides, today was a day to catch up, with Madison taking a luxuriant bath and doing some piano, while Mommy and Daddy did a bit of online shopping.  It's Black Friday, but we weren't having any of that in the shopping malls.  Daddy doesn't need that sort of stress, not when there's no apparent reason for it.  Instead, we were writing messages here, one more for the Grinch theme upcoming, and eating leftovers, of course.  There's lots of leftovers leftover, so we had ourselves Thanksgiving 2.0.  All the Tupperware containers filled with the Thanksgiving food items were put out, a sort of cold buffet that we loaded up onto the plates and put into the microwave right after.  Yes, it's not as glorious as Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving leftovers are the best kind of leftovers to have leftover.

Tonight we watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" some more, because why not?  We're in full Christmas season mode now, right?  We put out a few more decorations too, and got the magic Christmas wand set up so that each time the lights go on, there's the tinkling sound of fairy magic.  We've got records and music playing, and the Nutcrackers up on the top shelf.  Tomorrow, we may do a bit more, but today was fun just hanging around the house, cleaning up and doing a bit of productive stuff here and there.  It was a nice, slow paced day, unlike the madness at the shopping centers, and that was just fine with us!