Quite Puzzling

Whitney's new hobby is assembling jigsaw puzzles. For Christmas she was given one of Yankee Stadium and one of the Las Vegas strip. She took a couple of weeks putting the Yankees puzzle together, but became obsessed with the Vegas puzzle, and roped me into helping her with it. We put it together in one day. These puzzles are 500 pieces. But now she has started on an Empire Strikes Back puzzle of 1,500 pieces. It should at least take her three days, right?







You can see that we are missing one piece of the Vegas puzzle, right in the middle of Treasure Island. I offered a $100 reward to anyone who could find it, thinking that it was lost for good. I'm glad that Kate found it, instead of one of the kids.

Whitney has also instituted Friday Family Movie Night at our house, something that we've never done before. Since she started it she got to pick the first movie. She chose Race to Witch Mountain, wihch wasn't horrible. This week is Patrick's turn to pick. He confided in me that he had chosen the Simpson's Movie. I'm glad he did, so I could steer him toward something a little less crass. I can't wait until it's my turn to choose the movie. I'm sure the kids will love Fargo...