It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses a Toe From a Falling Box of Dominoes

It was such a simple request.

The Baby wanted to play with a puzzle.

I knew we'd neglected the upkeep of the game closet. I had an inkling that it was cluttered and messy, but surely I could find a puzzle quickly for my daughter.




Did I say we'd neglected the closet? I meant completely surrendered it to the seven levels of the game board underworld.

I stood for awhile looking at the mess, hoping my neighbor with the telephoto lens wasn't getting an eyeful of my secret shame.

I was asking myself how it had gotten this bad, when the metal tub of dominoes slid from somewhere on the stack and landed on my bare feet.



By the way, dominoes are heavy.

Consider yourself warned.

Apparently there was only one way I was going to get a puzzle without severely injuring myself.

So I dug in and cleaned out. I put the flippin' rubber frogs in the Flippin' Frogs box. (It's a real game, and that's really its name.) I found two complete sets of Uno Spin, just in case the first one gets buried in a pile of rubble. I located the "One Ring" for our Lord of the Rings Monopoly Set mixed in with paper butterflies from the Elefun game and tiny plastic cherries from Hi Ho Cherry-O.

I took a brief break to Chicken Limbo, and I'm sure my neighbor will be selling those photos to the highest bidder soon.

And in a handful of hours, (man handfuls, mind you) the game closet was transformed.




Pick a game, any game.



This is for the small card games/flash cards, and any stray pieces that need to be put back into a game box.

The kids are hoping for a snow day tomorrow so they can dive into all the fun games that have been rescued from the deep dark pit that was the closet.

And that's fine...they can play. But if they mess up that closet, there's going to be...



Apparently with a Hi Ho Cherry-O on top.

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