Scrabble

   We've been playing a lot of Scrabble lately.  Once the kids are in bed, we'll light a mosquito coil, grab the Scrabble box, a drink or some desert, and the baby monitor and spend the evening on back porch talking and playing.  D was looking over the rules one evening and saw a section on game variations.  We didn't know this but you can play the game with nine letters in your tray instead of seven and that's how we've been playing.  Did you know that?  If you like Scrabble at all, you should give it a try.  You can make longer words, which opens up the board more and makes it more fun, and the game goes faster.   Check out the board from our game the other night:

We tied!