FlapDoodle

Do you know your youngest child’s favorite tooth?  Do you know which of your children disembarked a flight during a layover to buy a slice of pizza and missed his connecting flight, only to discover the next flight didn’t take off for a week?  (Missing a flight to Bahrain and waiting a week may not have been horrific.  However, forced to sleep in an old deserted army barracks may have been.)

Did you know it’s hard to detect which child is which by smell?  Are you aware that one of your children cannot jump up, spin around three times, clap her hands to her thighs and shout, “Blast off,” without laughing?  Is it a shock to you that one son after removing shoes and socks, holds a conversation between his big toes, he’s affectionately named Gus and Jake?  Did you know your grandson can relay a full synopsis of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in fifteen seconds?  Do your granddaughter’s armpits smell like chocolate chip cookies or is it just my granddaughter’s?  Did you know one of your sons, wearing too tight of jeans, cannot touch his knee to his forehead and hold it there?  Can you believe your sister announces she’s going to scare someone, pauses less than thirty seconds, and yells, “Boo,” and you’ve already forgotten her threat and scream? 

Well, I didn’t know any of these things before an evening playing FlapDoodle.  And regarding my sister’s screaming instruction, she read aloud:  “Yell Boo at someone before the timer (30-seconds) goes off.  If they scream, advance two spaces.”  When I asked why she picked me, she answered, “I wanted to go with the sure thing.”

Did you know that a 750-piece jigsaw puzzle of the New York horizon can offer entertainment to passersby for more than three days?  And the memory of playing games together with family and friends can last a lifetime?

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