THANKS – to the one who got us the 300 piece puzzle for Christmas. Granted, 300 pieces are not too many for a puzzle. But normal puzzles usually have the person putting together a broken portrait, like a picture of a landscape or a scene. But the puzzle given to my 10-year-old back in December was a depiction of a collection of small toys clustered together on some shelves – what seemed like 300 toys broken into 300 pieces which we were supposed to piece together…
I wanted to do this puzzle together as a family days after it was given to us, but since that was one of the worst weekends of my life, we didn’t get around to it. Tonight, my 10-year-old was having trouble sleeping after her little sisters had gone to bed, so we hauled it out and went to work. Thank goodness the little ones were asleep. There was no way that they would have felt anything but frustration when trying to do this puzzle – it was too daunting for even my husband to try, but then again, he is not a puzzle person in the slightest. As a matter of fact, when he saw our completed triumph, he asked, “How do we preserve this?” I answered, “Why bother, we’d probably like to do it again; it was fun.” He gave me the strangest look and said, “I guess our definitions of fun in this case are completely different.”
I’m proud to say that together, my daughter and I finished the “impossible” puzzle about 15 minutes under our two-hour goal. Here are some pics:
Despite my clever blog post title and in all seriousness, I am thankful for the time that we spent together doing the puzzle, and we will look forward to doing it again. The thanks I would like to expend to the puzzle-giver is not at all sarcastic; we actually had a lot of fun. But that same puzzle-giver should keep a watchful eye… there are now two of us looking to challenge you to an equal payback 😉
My 6 year old niece received a puzzle. OK, it is a puzzle containing 8 different puzzles all Disney related. The piece count ranges from 150-500. I’ll have to share pictures at a later date. I always liked a good jigsaw.
Most, if not all, of my girls love to do puzzles. I’m sure they get this from their mother. She thought any puzzle less than 500 pieces was easy. They would set up a card table and work on 1000+ piece puzzles until they were finished.
Me, I just like to put that last piece in place.
Maybe someday we will work up to more pieces. Can’t really do the card table thing with Climb-y Climberson around to ruin anything he can. I’ve already had to get him off the table 4 times today – guess it’s time to put away the finished puzzle, but I’m having trouble bringing myself to do it!
They have roll-up mats and folding puzzle tables. I wasn’t fond of the roll-up mat, but the folding tables (that hold the puzzle in any state of completion) look really nice.