Coffee Chat - Board Games --- do cards count?

Yay....   Tuesday ... Coffee Chat time!

This is one of my favorite spots of the week.....  Really easy.... Hop on over to my sister from another mother over at  Time out for Mom for her weekly coffee chat....this week's topic: 

 
What were your favourite board games growing up? Do you still play? 

 I have so many fond memories of playing games as a child and then as an adult with my children (both when they were children and as adults). 

 I remember as a child being taught how to play dominoes by my Grandmother... she also taught me how to play Gin Rummy. Now both of these games require extensive concentration for the scoring mechanisms that go with them... and I learned those too. 

Parchesi 

 was always one of our favorites (my brother's and mine)... but I do believe this game was remade as Sorry!!!! Which was one of my kid's favorites.

NOTHING can beat an old fashioned game of Chinese Checkers...

Were you any good at it?

Of course NO childhood is sane without these favorites:

I can hardly wait to play with my Grandchildren and of course Candyland!!

But the favorite in our house growing up was:

And then my children had to get their own versions:

But as adults we love Scattegories and new domino game we were introduced to: Chicken Foot.....

I still love a good old fashioned game night.....

Friendship Friday - Spring Forward

 

Joining Friendship Friday with Ramona at Create with Joy where the topic this week is Spring Forward....

I have a lot to be grateful for in this Spring... I have three healthy children, and two healthy grandchildren.... what an amazing thing to become a Grandmother.... all olf a sudden your children undersatnd when you say The love going down is so much greater than the love going up.... but I digress.... Spring forward...

This is what I propose for springing forward....

Think more about me.... and what I need to fulfill my happiness

Figure out how to include my children and grandchildren into this equation... the major goal is to give my grandchildren the grandmother that they never had...and that will be a contast challenge between being me and the person who becomes my mother....

I have already decided that my investment into my children's and grandchilden's lives will be my moving closer to them and interacting on a daily basis... my life is too short to do anything else.!