UNO

Last night was game night at the Speights household.

It was one of those perfect nights where we had this crazy thing called free time. We both got home from work during the daylight hours, took a little nap, had yummy leftovers for dinner and then, what we look forward to every Tuesday night--24. Love it.

By 8pm, all of my to-do's were done. Y'all, I even dusted. On a weekday. I know.

So as I was dusting, I was thinking that we should do something fun. Even though he was working some, Landon graciously indulged me. We thought about a movie but couldn't find one. So we looked through the games.

Funny thing--most games are not meant to be played with two people--at least most of the games we have.

And thus, we would up with Uno--which, by the way, I don't think is really a two person game, but whatever. We made it work.

Two hours flew by as we sat at the dining room table, with KSBJ playing in the background, and Landon obliterated me. Things started out looking up--I won the first round, but forgot to say Uno. Who does that? Me apparently; Landon said it was his win by default, but I say it's a draw. I redeemed myself by winning the second round, but then proceeded to undo it by losing every other hand. I really need to find a game I'm good at. Come on--I can't even win at Uno?

But really, I could care less about winning Uno. We were having fun.

It reminded me of the days when we first got married and were broke. Instead of going out on Friday and Saturday nights, we sat at our dining room table and played each other in games like chinese checkers and badgammon and checkers. We felt a little lame at the time, but I look back on those nights with a smile .

Just like I look back on last Spring Break with a smile when I think of all the HOURS we spent playing Scrabulous on Facebook. Now that was a game I eventually was able to be competetive at with my husband.

Oh, how I miss Scrabulous. And how I miss Spring Break. Only 4 more weeks...