Time passes so quickly and there are so many things I want the Little Prince to know about my life. Each week, I reflect on one question and answer it here, hoping to create a treasure chest full of glittering memories for the Little Prince to enjoy.
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Tell about favorite games you played as a child.
I grew up without TV, so my sisters and I had many games to play. The ones I remember most were card games like Uno, Old Maid and Concentration and board games like Sorry, Candyland and Clue. We had imaginary friends and they had friends: JB and NaBe (the twins) and their friend, Snowball. They all had such amazing adventures. We spent hours outside using our imagination to ride horses and take shopping trips. Down the road from our house was a huge pit. We called it "the hole". There was a section in the middle that was almost always filled with about 6 inches of water. We put on our jelly shoes and went wading or captured tadpoles. We explored up and down the sides of the hole and through the surrounding trees on our bikes. Soon "the hole" became "Spain" to us. I'm not really sure about the story behind that, maybe we were studying Spain in school? Whatever the reason, it was a wonderful place for hide-and-seek or cops and robbers.
The Little Prince has a totally different lifestyle from mine. He has TV and video games and also participates in sports. But we still try to keep a bit of the "good old days" alive. We play Uno, Old Maid and Crazy Eights. He has his dad's Shoots and Ladders game as well as Sorry Sliders, a cooler version of Sorry. This past week, the three of us played Monolopy. As you can see, it's not the original Monolopy we all know and love, but the concept is the same. The Little Prince old enough now to understand the rules, sort of, and begs to be the banker, which allows us to sneak in a little bit of math practice.
