So, 2008. Unbelievable. We celebrated with a lovely solstice (stockings and presents included). New Year's Eve consisted of a hot meal (sometimes a luxury since we're both working full time now!), memory game with Soen (umm, he always wins.) and the movie Waitress (see it). We had a great visit with my parents--Kit and Bonnie really helped up out with child care as well as some much needed family love. Kit humored us and played Acquire (a completely out of control capitalistic board game that Scott is surprisingly adept at) one night--which is the reason for this post.
I don't think I'd played this particular game in over 5 years. The last time was likely up at Tom's mom's Poconos house with the entire "family". This spurred many memories, great..happy..fabulous...sarcastic memories of one Mr. Mike Young. How he was such a stickler for rules when it came to board games. How he would always use a particular rule in Acquire to win. How no one could get Mike and Tom out of the kitchen...and let's face it who would want to??? It made me (and Scott..since I kept saying, "Remember when Mike would do this..." and "God, if he wasn't so awesome I would have resented his perfect pecan pie"). It was soooo nice to remember those days.
That's all. Those memories were a good, good present.
Smooches. Michaela
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i had an intense Mike moment this holiday season when I got Danna's card with Bax's big bright face. out of nowhere, tears just came streaming down. Bax's smile is Mike's smile. I'm sure none of us will ever forget that smile. Bittersweet.
Will call this weekend to catch up. We thought about all of you a lot on NYEve.
XOMarianne
Mike was onoe great guy and we were all lucky to have known him!
by the way, this is a game I've not heard of; can you teach it to us when we visit in March?
love to the kiddies -and you and Scott - dee dee
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