Weekend Whatnot
A homeschooler won the National Spelling Bee today.
Both of my kids learned to play chess this week, with a cheap, easily broken glass chess set which I'm now looking to replace with something more substantial. Oh, how they'd love a Star Wars chess set! Or a giant set to play in the yard.
Get rid of clutter with these top five strategies from Steve at Inside Fatherhood.
My landscaping shifted into slow-motion the last couple of days as temperatures have soared into the 90's. Seems like we went from winter to summer with no time for our bodies to acclimate. Even the cat refused to go outside today and promptly shed about five pounds of fur.
You are richer than you think, so says the Global Rich List.
Top ten lists are fun... Stefan Shepherd compiles The Top Ten Kids CDs To Take To A Desert Island.
Have you ever forgotten your wedding anniversary?! I haven't either. Today is our 17th, and since the theme for that one is furniture, my wife received a lovely tall dresser for the bedroom. We'll celebrate with dinner at whatever restaurant the kids pick. Happy Anniversary Shmoopy!
Both of my kids learned to play chess this week, with a cheap, easily broken glass chess set which I'm now looking to replace with something more substantial. Oh, how they'd love a Star Wars chess set! Or a giant set to play in the yard.
Get rid of clutter with these top five strategies from Steve at Inside Fatherhood.
My landscaping shifted into slow-motion the last couple of days as temperatures have soared into the 90's. Seems like we went from winter to summer with no time for our bodies to acclimate. Even the cat refused to go outside today and promptly shed about five pounds of fur.
You are richer than you think, so says the Global Rich List.
Top ten lists are fun... Stefan Shepherd compiles The Top Ten Kids CDs To Take To A Desert Island.
Have you ever forgotten your wedding anniversary?! I haven't either. Today is our 17th, and since the theme for that one is furniture, my wife received a lovely tall dresser for the bedroom. We'll celebrate with dinner at whatever restaurant the kids pick. Happy Anniversary Shmoopy!
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One of the advantages to being married to a huge Star Wars fanboy is we have all these things from when they first came out for $10. Sometimes they wait in a box for a long time and sometimes they never come out.
Our Star Wars Chess set is what our kids learned to play on. Not the best strategy as they do not really recognize traditional pieces as easily. But they had more incentive to play then most kids I guess since they love Star Wars.
You can get a copy of the Episode II Attack of the clones Star Wars chess set on ebay for reasonable. They go up every so often - there is one on there now - check it out. Not my listing, just trying to be helpful. Good luck.
After we went to Disney our kids also asked for this set, maybe your family would be interested in that as your net set. You can find that at most store I think but here is one link.
Course you could just get a regular and nice chess set. I remember growing up a family nearby had a separate chess table with a game always going, they played chess a lot because of that.
If you let the kids pick . . .
I'm wondering what the top three restaurants they suggested were.
A magnetic travel chess set works well since the pieces can't be knocked off the board so easily, plus you can play in the park etc. while the others are romping.
Happy Anniversary! Today is mine.
Sending you on of our MANY chess sents lol and we have one of those garden sets they are good fun :) - I find it difficult to play with my Jacob's Simpsons set though and his other themed sets, I much prefer just the bog standard sets :)...... and he even has an electronic chessmaster one, and once I bet it LOL
HAPPY anniversary to you both..... enjoy....
x
Happy Anniversary.
Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary.
That global rich list was pretty humbling, huh?
Hey.. happy anniversary!!
Oh, and thanks for the gift! We got it last Saturday.
Thanks!
Happy Anniversary!
I never forgot the anniversary. Worse.
I forgot the wife's 30th birthday. Until after 10pm when she asked if I had anything to tell her.
Nope. I had nothing.
Then she cried.
Happy Anniversary.
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