EMPOWERED MOM

When I was younger, I was surrounded by aunts and uncles who gather around the dining table after dinner for “Family Game Night”. My grandparents would be listening to their favorite oldies but goodies as they lay on their bed in their room, while me and my uncles and aunts would play scrabble, go fish, monopoly, millionaire’s game, bogle, UNO and many others. It was fun. We would sleep late since it was how we spent summer nights in old boring Butuan City. On our last visit however, Butuan has already kept up with the times and it is quite more alive than it was twenty years ago… My cousins invited me and my siblings for a night cap and we wandered around the booming city. In my mind, I thought of the long nights we spent inside our grandparents house playing board games instead of wasting gasoline and money as we hopped from one establishment to another.. It was loud and I didn’t quite like it anymore. Ha! I must be growing old. But really. Spending summer nights on board games is rather more intimate and rewarding than the last activity we had. Oh how I miss that time.. So much has changed.

After a few beers and laughs, we decided to visit another cousin and when we got there, we saw the old boardgames boxes stacked together in one straight pile. Only then did our fun really begin. It was more than reminiscing what we had when these younger cousins of mine were yet too young to join so they have remained audience to my aunts, uncles and me as we played on and on.. Our cousin Gie said that before Lolo and Lola died, she made sure that the boards would be safe and secure for this day will come again, that we will be sleeping late for a family game night on our grandparents’ boardgames… Truly it was memorable… My grandma was right after all. She was not wrong in giving us all the fun in those board games.. After all, it was her and our grandpa who bought all those games…

Anyway, enough with the nostalgia. It isn’t my intention to join this contest but something tells me that if I win the Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice game or the Electronic Hyperslide game, not to mention an Electronic Hyperslide T-shirt, I would be leaving behind another legacy for my daughter— the love for Family Game Night. These days, it would already cost a fortune to afford these games, but if I win, well, it would be something to cherish.. Kids these days are no longer into these games, with technology and all other distractions. Perhaps, it will be a simple way to remind my daughter the value of togetherness in a very laid back and intimate way… The same way we have done it twenty years ago…

Thank Animetric’s World and Color Mix Toys and Games for the opportunity… Just blogging about my family game night makes me a winner already, as it has given me so much memories to cherish… I miss those days when everything was simple and free of complications… Ah.. I am growing old???