We finally completed the last game in the Harry Potter expansion set, after months of effort. We had done it once before, but definitely cheated that time. This time we did not cheat, and it definitely felt a lot more fulfilling to win. It’s pretty fun, and definitely challenging! Nice way to end a Tuesday.
Tag: harry potter
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July 12
What else would we be doing except playing the Harry Potter game? Christina has been into it with us this time, which has been a nice bonus.
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March 1
Christina has her father’s temper, alright. She accidentally kicked over this Lego Hogwarts work in progress the other day and instead of trying to piece it back together, she threw it and all the rest of it into the floor, breaking it to pieces. It would have been easy to call it a total loss, I guess, but this shit ain’t cheap, folks, so I swept all the pieces I could find into a Tupperware, brought it to triage, and rebuilt what her anger destroyed. And the best part is that this little girl who never wanted anything to do with this project ever again has spent the last hour and a half helping me track down missing pieces and not only got us caught up with where we were, but passed that into new work. I guess it’s good her mom has more patience than her dad.
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February 24
More than anything, all I wanted for Christmas was the Harry Potter board game. Not so much because I’m a die hard Harry Potter fan (which I’m really not), but because I’d played it with my brother and sister in law and enjoyed it. Billy and I have spent hours and hours of our lives playing this game over the last two months and we have yet to win. We came closer than ever tonight and it was both exhilarating and depressing. I am going to need a day or two to recover. Also today: We went to the girls’ school this afternoon to watch their oratorical festival. They recited poems about all sorts of things that would make our governor want to vomit, which just made me so proud and actually brought tears of joy to my eyes. I am so thankful that they are still able to learn about people like Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou. I don’t know how much longer that will be legal.
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