No Matter How You Spell It ...

We believe in multi-tasking
Many uses for one thing.
A game to play - a board that rhymes
And tells our happenings.
So the time is now turned over
Amid the snow and burrrrrr
To our Christmas blogger
Mr. Scrabble, sir.

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I'm the game played round the world.
Perhaps you've heard of me?
A checkered board of pink and blue
With blocks from A to Z.
In twenty ten my tiled I-s
Have seen the happen-ings -
The highs and lows of each new day
Within this fam-ly scene.
So, upon myself I took the task
To pen their yuletide card.
I gathered verbs and adjectives
But found the next part hard.
Describe a dad, a mom, a girl,
A girl ... another and another.
My mind was all a swirrrrl!
With no way to form a proper noun,
My mem'ries got confused.
I took a breath and changed my play
And found the Q got used!
Connecting all the words I learned,
It wasn't where they went or what they tried -
What made this year for them a win -
The peace they felt along the ride.

(December 2010 - The Family's Scrabble Board)