Hug Twice

My children are the only grandchildren on both sides, so to say that Christmas with our extended family is a little overwhelming on the “present receiving” end is an understatement. The kids get so completely overstimulated and overwhelmed by the sheer number of new things, that I have taken to not even giving them the gifts from us until after the Christmas hubbub has died down.

So over the past few weeks I have been pulling out CJ’s presents one by one and giving them to him. Alexa, being the less picky type due to age, had gotten mostly useful things and already had all her gifts by then. First he got a 50 states puzzle. And then a memory game. And then tonight, Candyland.

Well, he is seriously good at this game. The puzzle he was great at, but he could do that by himself. And the memory game he got bored with and wanted to flip everything over at once. Candyland is a cooperative game, and that is amazing and great yet tiring and draining all at the same time. he loves it. And he is really good at it, too. I know it is a game of luck but he seemed to win an awful lot. But he wants to play it, and play it, and play…

At least he is good natured about it when he gets sent back to the almost beginning. Someone else isn’t…

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