Day 172

22nd August 2022

RIP

When I went to bed last night, I checked in on the fish and could only find 3 of the four.

So, it wasn’t an enormous surprise when I received a txt at work from Mila, saying Doom was dead.

Oh no!! I thought.

When I walked in the door around lunchtime, they both ran to me and cried.

“Doom’s dead!”  Lincoln declared.

“I know sweetie, I’m so sorry.”  I soothed.

“Daddy killed Sunset!”  Mila wailed.

“Oh.”  I looked over to Liam.  He looked guilty with a big slice of shame.

“I didn’t mean to, I was trying to catch him to clean the tank and I just touched him with the scoop.” 

He basically, bludgeoned poor Sunset, against the side of the glass. 😧

I was quickly ushered outside, to see their tiny graves.

Cashflow

They settled back down to their game.  They were playing Cashflow.  A boardgame that teaches financial literacy.

You’re given a job, an income, credit card debt and a mortgage.

Then, you have to move around the hamsterwheel of life, picking up big or small deal cards that give off passive income.  Some deals are good, some are bad and as you buy and sell deals, you have to correct your balance sheet.

Sometimes you pick up ‘doodad’ cards that make you spend money.

The person who’s passive income surpasses their expenses is the winner and then they get to leave the rat race, and enter the fast lane. Next, they have to land on their dream vacation or purchase they chose before the game started, like sail the seven seas in your 50 foot yacht, or buy an island etc.

It’s a game for adults.

I’m always so surprised when they ask to play it and equally surprised at how long they play it for.  They played for almost 3 hours today!

Lincoln won.  Mila second.  Dad last.

Afterwards they went to the park.

Mila was stoked to find a yellow plane & Linc climbed the trees.  Pretty standard for this little monkey.  He’s been climbing all his life.  From the moment he could crawl, he was climbing!

Next it was the pet shop to buy more fish.

The mourning was done with. 😂

Meet Keisha the goldfish, I can’t remember what Linc called his, and Larry the mollusc.

Tomorrow is a mama day! X