Parlor Games

Tonight my sister and nephew are in town so we had dinner together at the Knights of Columbus fish fry. Afterwards, we went to my folks house to play games. The boys shot hoops outside for awhile and everyone was comfortable in the living room, so when they came in, I suggested staying seated where we were and play parlor games. This was a big hit at Adam's graduation party, and it went pretty well again.

We changed it up and started with "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button," except no one could quite figure out how to play it. Next, we played "Hide the Thimble" with the button. This is where one person goes out of the room and you hide the button. When they come back everyone shouts, hot or cold as they get closer are farther to the button. This lasted for sometime and was actually challenging to Nephew7. As interest faded in that, Betsy suggested, "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board." This was kind of dumb, and illicted some hysterics by Nephew7 as he laid on the floor and four others lifted him with two fingers each.

The boys were getting kind of squirrelly after a few rounds of that, so we played "Stone." Nephew7 stayed quiet 1/5 of a second, and I started kick boxing around Betsy in an effort to get her to laugh, and wound up getting myself and Grandma doubled over in laughter and in need of a Depends (me, not her). Since most of the family were still able to stay silent we started in with Charades. This went on with both good and lame charades including Sanjaya, Shrek, Willy Wonka, Sandlot, etc. Finally, just Grandpa and Boy14 were left in stone. Eli almost lost it when Nephew7 did his own version of beat boxing. Grandpa broke down eventually when Betsy made a literary gaffe, and he had to correct it. Found out Boy14 had a plan to call Grandpa's phone in the morning if the game was still on and try to get him to answer.

It was an evening of old fashioned fun.