Day 42 - At Sea

Today, I finally bonded with one of the children!  It was not Ryan, who I still hates me, but his older brother Luke.  Though Luke is only 9 years old, he makes the rest of us feel stupid.  He loves history, especially about war, and he has an extensive store of random facts in his head.  He is well-mannered, does what he is told, and has the attention span to sit through an entire conversation without trying to punch you or hide under the table as Ryan would do.  The two brothers could not be more different.

Luke and I played Axis & Allies, a complex strategy game based on World War II.  The instruction manual was longer than my homework for the week.  The premise is that you choose where to attack based on the size of your armies and your location, and a roll of the dice determines whether you made or missed your shot.  I felt like I was losing miserably.  Luke’s armies were knocking mine off the game board, and I was powerless to stop him.  The other thing was that as long as you kept doing well, you could continue attacking, which Luke did.  I never got a turn in the entire half-hour that we played, after which Luke’s bedtime mercifully arrived.