T Stands for UNO

 Hi everyone. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. Mine was great; it flew right by, and now we are into the last few days of 2021. 

Last week I showed you the Harry Potter hat I was hoping to finish for my daughter for Christmas. I "forced" myself to sit down one afternoon last week (before the holiday) and watch a couple of movies so I could knit.  Then on the morning of the 24th, my husband and I drove over for a visit with my MIL and my SIL (plus her family).  Since my MIL is living over in Maine with my SIL 90 minutes away and also since my husband was driving, I could sit and  knit the hat during the ride. I can happily say I finished the hat.

I can also happily say it was a hit with my daughter too.

It is already time for T again. Be sure to stop by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog to see what everyone has been up to. I thought I would share a couple of Christmas photos this week for T.

My daughter and her fiance arrived during the afternoon of Christmas Eve. The fiance's family decided it was best to wait on their Christmas celebration. Your might recall that his sister had come down with covid. We kept hearing his sister luckily wasn't too sick, but then on Christmas, when Zach was talking with his grandfather, he heard his sister was actually pretty sick which is why the Christmas celebration was postponed. Hopefully Zach's sister is recovering, and hopefully his Mom will go get vaccinated now. I know Zach has been worried about them.

On Christmas Eve, while dinner was cooking, we had some fun and quite passionate games of UNO.

If you aren't familiar with UNO, it is a card game where the winner is the first person to get rid of all the cards in their hand.  Everyone starts with 7 random cards. The cards come in 4 colors (red, blue, green and yellow). Cards are also numbered. If a yellow 4 is played, the next person to go can play another yellow card or they can play a 4 card of another color. Some cards also cause the next player to skip a turn, pick up 2 or 4 new cards, to reverse the direction of play or are wild cards where the color can be changed. If  someone can't play a card, then they need to pick up a card, or as we play,  they need to keep picking up  cards until they can actually play a card. My daughter brought her Disney set, and unlike  regular UNO, this set has cards that force everyone to switch hands also.

UNO has a lot of tradition in my family. My husband and I ( as well as our other friends) used to play a lot of UNO back in college, and we played even more UNO when my daughter was younger and lived at home. Because of that, this game  has some competitive history and what I could describe as strong comments, all meant in fun. It was a good time and a good way to spend Christmas Eve.

From my husband's expression I think he's going to make a nasty play.

You can see my husband's beer can and my partial glass of wine in these photos. They are my ticket to T this week.

We decided to take a morning family group photo before we opened our Christmas presents on the morning of the 25th, and since I forgot to get a photo of my daughter's fiance as we played UNO, here's a family portrait to wrap up my post.

Have a wonderful rest of of 2021, a very happy T day, and I wish you a very happy start to the new year.