She will spend hours building snowmen or towers of blocks or rolling dice on a board and moving pieces forward or backward or putting an apron on a two or three year old and making cookies or whipped cream or what have you. What I like is having grandchildren who are able to play computer games. They can spend two hours kneeling on the chair in front of the computer and be happy as larks as they make things jump and turn and go boom. Great invention, the computer. The United States is a game playing nation.
People are only happy when they are playing or watching a game.
We have many friends who did nothing but play games all their lives. This was their only form of recreation. It is interesting to watch them as their physical capabilities shrink and they still go through the motions of physical game players. They spend hours talking about their tennis or golf as though the Olympic trials were coming up and they were in earnest contention. I occupy my time that way from 8 to 11 p.m. daily.