After about five minutes of coaxing my ten year old, who "does not like puzzles", to play a five hundred piece Monsters Inc. puzzle, he finally gave in to my pressure! Ha ha! I then gambled to ask my four year old & his father. They both refused because neither of them were even slightly interested.
My oldest opened the unsealed puzzle box and dumped it over on to the table. Then a trillion pieces fell out! (Okay, not that many.) We feverishly spread them out in the middle of the table trying to scoot them slightly to one side. We turned each and every piece over to see it's pattern while exchanging pleasant chit chat.
After little bouts of excitement and giggles when we would find an extremely sought after puzzle piece, my youngest started to take notice from across the room. Papa and my youngest were busy entertaining themselves on the XBOX the entire time up until the little one jumped up when he finally had it with all the fun we were having over at the dining room table without him!
I had eventually lured all of the boys to the table. You couldn't wipe the grin off of my face at that very moment if you tried your hardest!
I achieved my goal. I summoned my family to a little much needed calming and peaceful interaction without having to throw a mini Mama tantrum. <wink>
Even though we never put together the entire puzzle we actually had fun!.....
Am I horrible that I forgot to mention that I was fully aware that this puzzle was missing pieces but was so desperate to get everyone to comply with my activity that I presented it as "new"!?!?! Haahaa!
Rockin' the puzzles & pushing them as often as possible now! :-)
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