Gotta love my Avery.  Every day is a vacation day and she only wants to have fun!

Unfortunately this weekend, she got stuck following me around doing work.  However in the end, she assisted me so much, I ended up paying her.

Last night as we were having dinner, she had games on her mind.  She wanted to play some board games.  But most of us weren’t totally interested.  But I told her to go grab something and we ended up playing Headbandz.  Have you ever played that game? It’s like a 20 questions of “Who amI?”  And your answer is on your head where you can’t see it but everyone else can.

Now, as it was a busy weekend for all of us, (adults); Me, Julie and Chris wanted to get to work.  I told Julie I would feed her dinner, but it was a work night for me, so I had to get back to what I was doing as I had a deadline to work with.

Chris just flew in from a conference and was tired, and Julie was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, so all she wanted to do was eat, visit and head out, per our discussion (that it would be dinner only).

But Avery has her convictions so we gave in for ‘one quick game’.

Well if we were playing the way she was, it would have been over quickly.  However, some of us have too much information in our brains to ask the right questions to come up with something as simple as a “jump rope”.

Everyone guessed theirs at one point but Chris.  He couldn’t figure it out and he was getting frustrated.  Avery was on her 3rd or 4th card, while Chris was on his first, so she started throwing hints at him, because she didn’t want him to feel like a failure.  It was so cute seeing this 10-year-old try to come to her dad’s rescue.  She couldn’t stop laughing and as a result we are all laughing at how hard she was trying to ‘give’ him the answer.  He finally got it, but this changed the game.

Instead of playing 20 questions, we decided to see who could give the most obscure hint to each player to see if we could get them to figure out the card that was on their head.  The game started going a lot faster and we were laughing a lot more.  We kept going until nearly every last card was used.

In the end, our reluctance turned into exhausted laughter and great memories.  We all played the game, had fun and were able to finish what we needed to do.

I love that my child is determined to have fun.  Because with all the tasks I have in my life, I often forget to do just that.

I think an ounce of fun should be put into our calendars every day.  Our tasks will stay where they are, but the intimate moments with your kids, husband, wife or friend help us to have the energy to get those tasks done.  And who knows; when you approach a task after a happy encounter; you may even have a bounce in your step while proceeding forward.

Happy Monday