Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?

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Spanish 21 for me… and my kids, of course! Yup, I will confess that I did, in fact, teach my children to gamble. Don’t Judge… you can be judgy after you lock YOURself up in a camper with three loud, and very bored children… and no electronic devices… none! No cell phones, vcr’s, radios, or the like… Just us, all trapped in a camper during a rain storm.

All we had was a deck of cards, a heater for warmth, and a bag of M&M’s and one of Skittles. What’s a mom to do? I doled out a pile of each candy to my kids, and us grown ups, and we all separated our candy currency into color coded piles based on value. From there it devolved…

Try teaching anything to three cheeky camper bound kids, and then be nuts like we were, and give em sugar…

The game was hilarious, looking more like a game of go fish, or spoons, with all the yelling and grabbing. Right in the middle of the game, one of my daughters began teasing me with her sticky little candy fingers, as if she was going to wipe candy on my face. You know how when you are playing with a child and teasing them like you are gonna nibble on their fingers or something like that?

Tears sprang to both our eyes… her tears were obviously due to shock and pain, while mine were of shock and sincere sorrow for causing my baby girl pain. I want you to know that what makes this story so good, is not that I bit her finger, but the moments right after… I do not think it was more than 5 seconds of the shock tears before the entire table erupted in laughter. We were all looking at her and she just burst into rolling laughter, pointing at all of us, and hiccupping through tears, “you should have seen all you guys faces, it was so funny”. That was what broke the shock part, for us all.

Never fear, she has all of her fingers to this day, and just so you know, I didn’t ever break the skin when I bit her, but her fingers did taste like cherry… and I liked it!