11/22/2023 0 Comments 2013 hasbro game of life cardsSo there I was for the rest of the long drawn out game stuck at a paltry $20,000 a year salary with 4 kids of my own, a blue husband who refuses to speak to me, and an uncanny knack for landing on every known expense imaginable. After two paydays, he got the card that said “exchange salary” with any other player. I told my young son he’d probably be a “drain on the system” before too much longer at the rate he was accruing kids and a high-falutin’ lifestyle on a pauper’s salary. Very quickly he landed a wife, a kid, then a set of twins, and then another kid. My husband, being the artist that he was and is, had an annual salary of twenty grand and took a loan out for a $200,000 mortgage. So entertainer-boy just spun the dial for computer geek-man and moved his box-like van around the board, and basically made every decision for him. My oldest son said we could just play for him as he had important games in real life he had to play on the Wii. We made our way around the board collecting our salaries multiple times, picking up LIFE cards, paying both frivolous and necessary bills, and chastising one another for memory lapses over whose turn it was. Which if moms were actually compensated in real life for policing a busy household, I would say this is adequate at best. I was elated to have an annual salary of ninety grand. The only difference is that in real life my husband is a mechanic, but even that requires a modicum of creativity to be able to repair cars when car parts or cars themselves are no longer manufactured. Not so much different than our real life actually. I was a police person, my husband was an artist, my adult son was a computer programmer, and my youngest son was an entertainer. We all decided to skip college as we couldn’t find how starting out with borrowed money would get us a higher paying salary which was basically luck of the draw anyway. My husband, young son and I pulled the game of LIFE out of the box and started setting up. That is to say, I moved the dirty dishes and miscellaneous other clutter to the counter to deal with later. So when my seven year old son requested we play the game of LIFE last night, I was all in! I made dinner speedy quick and cleared the table lightening fast after we finished eating. There is nothing like playing a great game around a table with fun people, food, coffee and tea, laughter, and a community quest to learn something new and if luck has it, to WIN! I was first inspired a week ago when playing a vicious, okay scratch that, mildly competitive game of Double Twelve Dominoes – The Mexican Train Version with the ladies from my bible study group. We decided we are going to take good old Milton Bradley’s suggestion and have a family fun night on Wednesdays and start playing board games. We have decided to turn Wednesdays into Family Fun night.
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