You know it wasn’t our turn to design the game this year, but circumstances being what they were, what choice did we have? My sister-in-law, who was supposed to be the architect for 2016, was scheduled to give birth less than 2 weeks before the event, and so wouldn’t even be able to attend, much […]
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Things Just Got a Little More Epic – CESH 2014
Four years ago we modified a long-standing family tradition in an effort to include the younger children and spice things up a bit. Instead of the annual shop-n-swap, in which each family member would go off and buy a small gift for each other player (with time and dollar limits), we changed it into a […]
Christmas Hangover
Man, that was a lot of Christmas! There is only so much joy and frivolity that one can take, and I am wiped out! The 26th should be a national holiday as well: a day of recovery. See, New Year’s Day is nice, because everyone does their celebrating the night before, and then you get […]
The First Annual Christmas Eve Scavenger Hunt
This year, we started a new tradition with my wife’s family. In past years we had played a Shop and Swap Christmas Game on Christmas Eve, where everyone goes somewhere, splits up, and buys a little gift (under $5) for every other player. At the end, we would go home for lunch, wrap the presents, […]