Our brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age. ~Theresa A. Kestly
It’s my birthday month so it’s time to have some fun and to give away some books. Of course, you can check out Last Sunday’s post, Mining Parenting Memories, and leave a comment on that post to be entered in a drawing for a devotional book about fathers and sons, Adventures in Fatherhood, by Carlton Hughes and Holland Webb. It’s a neat book that would make a great gift for yourself or for a father or grandfather in your life. But leave that comment soon. Giveaway ends this weekend.
But now we’re going to play a “What’s the Caption?” game. I went out and found some play quotes to prove this is going to be good for you. Playing can make us more creative, more relaxed, more fun. We can join in with all sorts of play. When we’re kids we play all sorts of imaginative games. Me, I even played around with writing a book when I was about ten and imagined myself a sort of Hardy Boy. Well, Hardy Girl. I loved reading those Hardy Boy mysteries when I was a kid and so picked up pen and paper and wrote myself into a mystery.
I have never put down the pen since. The pen may have turned into a typewriter and then a keyboard, but I’m still pulling words out of my imagination to make up stories. That surely has to be akin to play even when it is work. And sometimes writing a 100,000 word book can be work. Work I want to do but still work. Writing you these “letters” here on my online journal isn’t work at all, but fun. Play for sure.
Then when I decide to have a game, it really turns into play, although I will admit I often have to work to come up with those mystery photos when we play the mystery photo game. But we’re going to save that game for another time. This time we’re doing the Caption Game. And it can be fun. All you have to do is share your best caption for whatever picture I post on the next four posts. That will give you the chance to enter four times because each new post will be the opportunity to leave a caption and get another entry.
The caption doesn’t have to be particularly witty. It can be, but any caption will be good for an entry. It does have to be family friendly, but I know all of you are family friendly. I’ll pick four winners who will get their choice of one of my books. Remember, those of you who have a whole shelf of my books, and I thank you very much if you do, then an autographed book makes a great gift. Christmas will be here before you know it. I know we’ll be seeing Christmas trees before long, ready or not. Somebody said it was 100 days until Christmas. I’m not counting ahead. I’ll just lazy along and let it show up in its own good time.
Deadline to enter will be Monday, September 28, 2020 at midnight EST. You must be at least eighteen to enter, but you can get help from your kids coming up with the caption if you want. I’ll draw the winners by random number and notify them by email. You don’t need to do anything except to have fun leaving your caption for the above picture.
I can tell you what my caption should be. “My sister is going to kill me for posting this.” 🙂
So let’s play. What caption can you think up for the picture up top?
Surely all God’s people…like to play. ~John Muir
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Help I Lost My Marbles
After All these Years…. checking to see if grandma still knows how to count?!
Hoping this deadline is still Sept. 28th
I wish the grandkids would pick up after themselves.
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Love seeing more captions tonight. And so far, I don’t think my sister has seen it. So I’m still not in the dog house. 🙂
Nancy, we never want to lose our marbles. That’s for sure. 🙂
Susan, I like your take about the need to make sure you find all the marbles before you become headlines in the local paper after a tumble from sliding on that missing marble.
Dana, I’m guessing you must have been a pretty straight shooter with those marbles when you played with the boys and won their cat’s eyes special marbles. Cute caption.
Are you ready for a new picture for a new caption? I’m looking for the right picture to post.
I immediately thought back to my grade school days when I competed against the boys at marbles. My caption is “Where’s that cat’s eye boulder I won from Billy?”
If I don’t find that missing marble tonight, it will find me early tomorrow morning! I can just read the headlines now, “Lady trips. Lost her marbles. REALLY!”
Happy belated birthday. My birthday is coming up later this month. Thankful and blessed!
No, I haven’t lost my marbles. They’re all here somewhere.
Oh! No! Was that 10 or 11? Now I have to start counting them again.
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That caption makes me smile, Ann. Mostly because the grandkids were just here playing cards and the two girls kept fussing because the other one was counting their score out loud and making them lose count. We almost had a melt down. 🙂
I must get these marbles organized by color !! I hope I can get up after this task is completed and before anyone comes to the door !
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That’s a good thought about before anyone came to the door, Nancy. Your caption has me smiling.
Uh oh!!! This is fun, but can I get up?!!!
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Cute caption, Karen. Thank goodness, my sister had a sister around to help her up when she got through “playing” with the marbles. 🙂