The Relative Game

You may be asking yourself why I would post this incredibly amusing picture on my blog. And I agree that's a very noteworthy question...A good friend of mine, sent me an email today with this picture that in her words "might solve all Mick's problems."

Now the game!

We play this really, really, extremely quirky game in our family...called "The Relative Game". It started out on the night before a family wedding...I can't even remember who was getting married, but JoAnn, Mick and I were talking about the fact that the person marrying our family didn't really know what they were getting into...I mean really had they met "Aunt Cackle" and various others? Then JoAnn and I started comparing relatives against Mick's and the game was born.

Basically, the rules are:

1. The person with the weirdest relatives wins (or looses...depends on your perspective.)

2. You HAVE to claim even the most obscure relatives who may in any way be "loosely" related to your side of the family. And when we say "loosely" we mean loosely. IE. Mick has to claim his sister in laws, grandmothers, long lost son AND a lady we know from home who used to live in his parent's ward...you get the idea.

So now we play this game fairly often. Always when we are having a family wedding and various other times, just because we can...not to mention that it TOTALLY amuses us.

(BTW...Mick usually looses the game, well, unless Ernie is playing. She has the BEST trumps.)

New Year's Eve Extravaganza

You may THINK that extravaganza is quite a strong word to use to describe a New Year's Eve party...but if you do, you have never attended our party. This year was kind of small...only 45-50 people came. But we had fondue like always...2 kinds of meat, 3 kinds of cheese, pizza fondue, 2 kinds of carmel and of course, chocolate. It's always tons of fun with tons and tons of old and new friends, games, noise, fire works, etc.

Once again proving that I am a very cool Aunt. I may have taken the children toilet papering after the party was mostly breaking up. Hey, they needed an adult so they didn't get in trouble for breaking curfew. ;O)

Today it was back to work. That was not very amusing. But it is a necessary evil. If I'm going to travel and play somebody has to work to pay for it. And apparently that somebody is me. Happy New Year to all of you.