Puzzling

Pam loved puzzles. No, I mean LOVED puzzles.

Early in our marriage we used to spend hours working on large puzzles of outdoor vistas. I think we even knocked off a 10,000 piece monster of a view in the Italian Dolomites. We had at least 20 puzzles in the closet, including a several-thousand piece one of cheeses. Yes, cheese. She was from Wisconsin. You’d expect different because… ?

Pam’s puzzle passion changed when we started having kids. Turns out having thousands of tiny cardboard pieces around drooly, grabby munchkins isn’t a recipe for a calm play time. So we traded those monsters in for kid-appropriate puzzles and continued on. We were always happy to find a vacation spot that had a pile of puzzles for us to play with.

Not sure where Pam’s love of puzzles started, but I did find this great photo of her in her high school days…
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  1. UnknownSeptember 29, 2017 at 10:48 AM

    This is sweet, and it makes me remember times growing up in my house where there seemed to often be a puzzle taking up the dining room table. You would stop for a few minutes to pick at it, then before you knew it there was a pack of puzzlers looking for those special pieces that finish that special part of the image, and it's been 2 hours.
    Please keep finding these moments :)

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