HoundsGood: Chronicles of a Virtual Volunteer

Christmas was a lot of fun this year, especially since I was able to see a cousin I hadn’t seen in ten years!  We both moved out of state and kept missing eachother the times we would come back to visit.  So, this time, all of the cousins, age fourteen to thirty-eight were in one room for the very first time in ten years.  Of course, we forgot to take any pictures of all of us together!

We really loved Lincoln Logs and all sorts of building toys as kids.   Nowadays, many Building toys have magnets as a central component and you can make many structures that may defy gravity just a little bit more than one used to.   In fact, all the “big kids,” who are in their late twenties and thirties, plus an uncle, were sitting on the floor in the spare room at my Grandparents, supposedly playing with the next generation of three to eight year olds that were the children of some of my cousins.   It seems that the “little kids” slowly migrated out of the room and the “big kids” remained.  If you ask what they are doing, they say they are busy watching the “little kids,” and in fact had not noticed their charges had wandered off.   That was the way it has always been, with the right of passage that we were now replacing our uncles in the hogging of the toys.

I noticed that the Megnext toys are like Legos in the sense that when you get some pieces, you can add more pieces to make an even bigger toy rather than the sets being obsolete without eachother.   In otherwords, you can add to a kid’s (or adult’s) collection with not a very large investment.

I don’t know if it is just our generation who is hanging on to their toys longer than normal, but we all have fun.  The kids learn that they are never too old to be a kid.

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