UNO!

Landon spent the night on Tuesday.

I like for him to spend the night for several reasons.

He is easy.  He doesn't create a mess.  He doesn't have to be entertained.  He goes to bed without a  fuss.  He sleep well.  He gets up when he wants to and sleeps late if he can.

And he is just fun.

We played several games of  UNO that evening.   It was not a quiet game.

In fact--it was VERY NOISY!

We were using reverse cards quickly so we could get rid of our cards.

Then one of us would plop down a +2 card for the other person to draw two.

One time I had THREE Draw +4 cards in my hand and I kept playing them every time he would work his way down to one or two cards.

I loved it!

Finally Papaw told us we were being very loud (Ok...we were the only ones here and the neighbors weren't close enough to hear us so who really cared>?) and it was getting late.

We started out by keeping a tally of how many times each of us won, but we lost track after it was Mamaw 3 - Landon 4.

The next day there was a tornado warning.  In the rush of gathering things to take to the basement, I grabbed my purse (essential items in it, you know!), my book (always need something to read) and Landon was grabbing flashlights (in case the power went off again), plus the UNO deck AND the card shuffler!

We set up the card table and Gary brought two chairs down from the back of the Escape, the ones we take to ball games.  We also had a large canister type of flashlight to put on the table.  Gary brought us a couple of bottles of pop from the fridge, then he returned upstairs to keep an eye on the storm.

Once again ---laughter, fun, more Draw +2 and Draw +4 cards. 

We stayed downstairs for probably 40 minutes or so.  In that time we played a number of hands of UNO.  And it wasn't quiet this time either.  '

Who won?  Not sure. 

But it was fun.

And that was the object of the game.