The Game of Life

Well.

It's been a very long time since I last posted.

Not really sure why. I mean, my life hasn't been that crazy busy yet. I haven't started going on home visits for my internship so it seems like I'm only taking 10 hours right now. I haven't been reading a ton.

I have spent an entire weekend hanging out with my family - including my newborn baby cousin and my adorable toddler cousin.

Which reminded me of this one post that I meant to write. About a month ago. Back before school started and I was home. After a really silly game of Life with my littlest sister.

This story is best told in pictures, but before I get to that I should explain that my sister and I rarely play Life by the rules. The spinning [Well, okay, rolling dice because the spinner for our board is in Kentucky or something. Long story.] and buying and paydaying all go according to the instructions.

BUT, in the not-quite-new version that we own, there's a handy little intersection towards the end of the route where you're supposed to cross over to the bridge and go a little further and then retire.

I figure it makes more sense just to show you what I'm talking about.

We don't do this.

We jump back onto the part of the route that we already went over and go all the back around. And then, usually, we're ready to retire.

Our rationale for this cheating? It's not what you think - we don't want more money or a chance to switch careers or more LIFE tiles.

We want babies.

Lots and lots of babies :)

I did quite well on our first go round. So well that I had to have 2 cars. So well that I was thinking maybe we should just go straight to the end. My sister, not so much.  

Corinne: 5 kids [twins, boy, adopt twins]. Miss N: 0.

So we go around again. I think I started. And I immediately landed on the twins again. N has no kids. We keep going. I land on the exact same baby boy spot as I had the first time. N still has no kids.

Sneaky picture taking. She covered her car with her hands when she realized what I was doing.

We get to the point that there's only one baby spot left - the adopt twins one.

I am three spaces away. I joke, "I'm going to laugh if I get a three."

I roll a two and a one.

Notice the hand covering the board. And the warm color scheme of my cars.

N screams in frustration.

I pull out yet another car. I am driving the orange one, I let my husband drive the yellow one, and the first set of twins are driving the red one.

Then it's N's turn. She is four spaces away. She rolls a one and a four.

I knock the second dice over so it becomes a three.

N is finally not ashamed to show her car next to mine.

Final tally: Corinne: 10 kids [twins, boy, adopt twins + twins, boy, adopt twins]. N: 2 kids [adopt twins].

And in case you were wondering, I won. Landing on baby spaces 6 times gets you a bunch of LIFE tiles. Also, I stole traded for N's $100,000 salary card halfway through the game.