Happy Christmas

Today is Christmas. I went to lunch with two friends. I took my Chinese friend, Don, to try burritos at my favorite Mexican restaurant. I enjoy sharing things with him, he appreciates everything and is always fun. After I took Don home I went home and my kids came over. We played an old card game called Flinch. My siblings and I used to play Flinch at my grandmother's house when I was 9. We played with some real "characters". Besides my three siblings, I was the youngest, we played with Uncle John, Uncle Frank, and my grandmother. My father was in Korea for a year when we lived in Illinois. Uncle Frank was my mom's uncle, my great uncle. He used to do things like throw coins in the yard for the kids to run after, he was famous for eating anything on a sandwich. He would say, "it all ends up in the same place". Uncle John was my mother's brother. He was just a few years older than my mom, he was a lot of fun and we always enjoyed when he was around. He was going to college at the time we lived there, but came and visited often. He liked to have fun, like when we found an old parachute in the barn (they lived on a farm) and he hooked it up to the back bumper of his car and it almost ripped the bumper off. We would play Flinch often, it was fun to play with all the relatives. I won often, and they would all be upset and accuse me of cheating. The problem was, I didn't know how to cheat. The wouldn't accept that and just say I cheated. I didn't know how to increase my chances of winning by cheating. I won because I was lucky, not skill and not cheating. Today was fun, there was lots of laughter and yelling. Whenever we play games Jayne always wins. Today we played 3 games and Jayne won the first game. After that no one else cared who won as long as it wasn't Jayne. I laughed a lot because I knew exactly how Jayne felt. The kids didn't know why I was laughing, but any of my siblings would know. It is fun watching my kids grow up and overcome the same obstacles we had when we were young! Live is Good!!!