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Alberta Spring, Canadian spring, checker board, christian author, harlequin author, inspirational author, love inspired author, stalemate
Do you see that rainy misery outside? That’s called writing paradise! You wish you could be so lucky as to look out a window over that melting pile of dirty snow IN MARCH! I’m in northern Canada, and there are places in the United States that are hip deep in snow right now. I don’t get to feel smug often about weather, so allow me this. 😉
Anyway, this would be writing paradise if I didn’t have my six-year-old at home with a tummy bug. So instead of pouring it on for my deadline, I’m making soft porridge and playing checkers with him.
The only problem is that he no longer trusts me to let him win.
Our first game of checkers, the game ended with me having three kings… which inspired me to sing “We Three Kings” heartily while I wiped the board with him.
“Good game, sweetheart.”
Maybe not really sportsmanlike on my part. Sorry. 😦
The next game, I felt bad for my earlier enthusiasm, and kept giving him chances to jump me.
“No!” he’d say. “If I jump you there, then you’ll jump me back!”
So we kept moving our pieces, him scared to jump me, and me trying really hard not to win again… And we ended up like this:
No joke! The mother of all stalemates.
Parenting at it’s finest. 😉 Now you have two things to envy me for: a pile of melting, dirty snow, and my solid parenting strategies.
Happy Monday!
My sister never let her children win. When they’d finally beat her not a word was said about sportsmanship as they crowed their success. 🙂
LOL! Our house rule is that you have to say, “Good game” after the game. No crowing or crying. We should probably add another rule about Mom not singing songs, either. 😉
We actually had a beautiful, sunny, Spring-like day here in Philly. Hope the little one feels better soon!
You’re warming up, too! That’s great!
I hope he’s better soon, too. He’s not too miserable, and he’s pretty hard to work around. 😉