Here’s the problem:
- I lack impulse control.
- I buy love.
- I can justify just about anything…including purchasing 25 games for my kids to open and play every day between now and Christmas.
That’s right…after seeing what some of the crafty women* in blogland are doing I actually went to Target and crammed 25 board games into my cart with the intention of wrapping each one and spending some serious quality time with the kids this month.
You know when you leave a store and you have that sneaking suspicion you may have just made a mistake? I decided I needed to call my Life Mentor.
Me: Mom? I have a feeling I either just did something really awesome and amazing…or really stupid and I kind of need you to tell me which.
Mom: Okaaaay….
Me: I bought 25 board games for the kids so that we can open one and play it together as a family everyday this month as we countdown to Christmas.
Mom: *Insert hysterical laughter*
Me: Soooo…what do you think?
Mom: I just…Kathy! You actually purchased 25 board games!?!
Me: Well…there’s like a deck of UNO in there too so it’s not like they’re ALL board games. And a lot of them were on sale for the holidays…
Mom: You don’t even LIKE playing board games with children.
Me: God I know! I was just thinking…maybe this time I would.
Mom: Whatever happened to the idea of maybe purchasing one or two and learning those and replaying them a few times as opposed to spending the time to learn it and then moving on to another the next day.
Me: Sigh…yeah…you have a point…
Mom: You need to take those games back right now.
And so I did. My lack of sense is beginning to frighten me. Why did I think 25 nights of games with my 8,6 and 4 year old would be anything but excruciating? What’s happening to me?
Our advent calendar this year will be the same wooden house we’ve used EVERY year.
I will fill it with chocolate nougat.
And on Saturdays we will open one of the FOUR games I kept. We will play. I will remember I hate playing and then I will forget I hate playing in time for the next Saturday where we’ll do it all over again.