Dan and I used to play Yahtzee and Scrabble alot. It was fun to just sit with him and play a game that also had a positive effect on his math and spelling, though he seemed unaware of any academic benefit.
Today I found our Yahtzee game up on a closet shelf.
Dan wrote "me" and "mom" at the top of the score sheet, he had also made various doodles on the paper, and next to some of the scores he wrote "good job mom" with a smiling face. At the bottom of the sheet, he made a heart with mom written in the middle of it. I was in the habit of dating anything he had written or drawn on, this one was from 1980 when he was 7.
I really, really miss my boy.
Love,
Annie (Dans mom)