Puzzles

We had another snowday Friday, and I got the brilliant idea to go through all the puzzles in our house and get rid of any that were missing peices. We had 21 puzzles so it took the rest of the weekend to do them all. Only one had all the peices.


Most of them looked like this:



But some looked as bad as this (and this is after we found three peices of this puzzle in the train table):



We did find many stray peices in a little bin where I toss lost game and puzzle peices and were able to complete 5 puzzles. Although I was very motivated to toss puzzles when I started this project, I realized that puzzles missing one or two peices are still fun to do. So we kept all the ones that were missing just one or two peices as well. We ended up throwing out only seven. At the end we still had a random collection of puzzle peices with no puzzle. Where did they come from?



Doing puzzles is very calming for me, and I had some great chats with my kids while we did them. My daughter told me about her school projects, my son told me about all the junky things he wants to eat on his birthday and my three year old told me ghost stories about big foot.

Because I liked doing them so much, I have an urge to go out and buy more puzzles. I felt like I was cleaning, bonding with my kids, and playin all at the same time. My son's birthday is coming up in just a few days... But I guess 14 puzzles is enough for one household.