Mommy plus Five

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I would have never thought a simple $10 game, Terraria, would be the edge we needed to engage Jack in fun time...but it is.  He is enjoying this little game so much!  

We were playing together last night and having so much fun we did not realize it was well after midnight.  Jack is never up past 10:00pm.  The noises Jack was making during game play were hilarious!  At one point Casey said "Aww look, daddy is experiencing his first gamer's rage."  LOL!!  Finally about 2:00am I said, "Okay boys time for bed!  You too Jack."  

When I got up this morning, there was Jack back on the computer playing the game.  You have to understand, Jack is not a computer person.  The limit to his computer activity is checking Craig's List for a good buy, or playing solitaire.  He does not even know how to use email.  It was so cute to find him sitting in front of Terraria mining away.  Then I heard him excitedly say to Blake, "Son, look what I just built!"

Today is his day off, and when he is off he is busy working on the yard, or he will polish the floors, do the laundry, clean the bathroom.  Even though he is home, we do not see much of him.  Now with a game we can all enjoy together, life will be far more interesting for the boys.  They have something they can share with daddy.

What I love about this game is that it is not just silly gaming.  You mine to get raw materials, or chop trees down to get wood.  There is a crafting table to use the wood to create the materials needed to build a house.  Walls, doors, tables and chairs.  In mining you can discover iron, copper, silver and gold.  With those materials you can go to the anvil and craft buckets and weapons.  There is also a furnace you can us to smelt sand into glass to make windows or jars.

If you build your homes according the the rules, you can attract a merchant to sell your goods, a nurse that can heal you if you are wounded in battle, an arms dealer or demolition man to help you upgrade your weapons to fight the bad guys.  With multi-player I can create a server and we connect the four computers in the house to the server and we all play together.  It really is a brilliant little game!

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