3rd August 2013
SCRABBLE gifted its way to our home some time back. It made a grand entry, I must say. Every Saturday and Sunday, we religiously put N to sleep, finish our lunch and spread the game on the table. Infact, today when I came back from school….SURPRISE SURPRISE!....M left all that he was doing on his laptop, A stopped watching TV, Amma started setting the dining table. I was baffled, to say the least….well, bringing my whole family less than 2 minutes to the dining table is near to impossible, but SCRABBLE did it!
SCRABBLE gifted its way to our home some time back. It made a grand entry, I must say. Every Saturday and Sunday, we religiously put N to sleep, finish our lunch and spread the game on the table. Infact, today when I came back from school….SURPRISE SURPRISE!....M left all that he was doing on his laptop, A stopped watching TV, Amma started setting the dining table. I was baffled, to say the least….well, bringing my whole family less than 2 minutes to the dining table is near to impossible, but SCRABBLE did it!
“We are playing SCRABBLE, right?” declared the husband. Sure
we are, I say!
There have been moments, you know the kinds when you know it’s
just the game your family needs.
You know like the one when my 7 year old Shakespeare came up with 2 words in one chance, triple letter and double word. He himself was shocked to see the marks he ended up with.
Or when Amma with a very straight face, in a desperate move
to use her tough letters and make some points, made the word SEX. In case you
are wondering, yes….A was also sitting right there. We thought he would freak
out, but he sat cool.
And then, after a few more rounds, again…blame the
desperation, Amma (yeah again!) added a Y to SEX and made SEXY. And that is
when A shrieked. “Amumma made the S word!!! The S word!!! Amma, your mother
made the S word!!!!!!!!! Yeah got it my darling son. I got it that you don’t know
SEX but you know SEXY. Thank you Bollywood.
How can I forget?.... The time or rather the many times when
it is asked, confirmed and then re-confirmed through a pocket dictionary, online
dictionary and then a Thesaurus whether words like ficy, maily, sicy, lome and
the likes exist. Seriously, we need a new dictionary. The ones that are
existing is not serving the purpose…CRAP!
And ofcourse the biggest high of all…All the times we have
played, yours truly has been the winner. (God promise!)
My son has started words. In the past 2 weeks, he has
completed 3 books. And now he is reading my favourite as a child: Enid Blyton’s
Mr. Twiddle series J
He loves it! And mommy loves it a lot more.
God bless the soul who invented SCRABBLE. BTW, it is Mr. Alfred Mosher Butts. So, thank you Sir.