Hello! I am back from Dallas and had a wonderful time visiting with my parents and my sister, (and dh too, although I'm around him all the time!). I'm not really big into gifts, materiality wise, but this year I got a few gifts that were really amazing and made me appreciate my family that much more. My mom spent the last 6 months pulling together every family recipe that I have ever enjoyed since childhood from all her cookbooks and put them together into one cookbook that she typed up along with her commentaries on the recipes. Wow! She even got it bound together at Kinkos. Another special gift, a mancala set from dh, which is a great game that I love and which was "borrowed" by an acquaintance a few years ago and never returned. It is a traditional African counting game and its also great to teach your kids to count, but even us so-called adults think its fun! If you have never played it I definitely recommend and it is not very expensive to get, see pic above!
I'm on your "few of my favorite" things from December link. I learned this game when I was teaching. A little boy brought it on "fun friday" where tey can do free play and no one would play with him so he was sitting on the floor with his mancala looking so sad... so I went and decided to play with him and I was HOoked!!! Pretty soon we had championship games etc and the kid was very popular since the teacher was obsessed with his game, lol.
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