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I just wanted to quickly share something I’ve been working on this past week.

Last year GB and I did the eIditarod, and it was SO much fun that we are going to do it again this year. But I worried that we had done so many activities last year that he may find it less than fun this year if I didn’t come up with something new.

Then, the other night, I woke up in the middle of the night with a great idea. I thought it was a great idea, anyway…. I would make some Iditarod cards with the mushers and dogs on them. And I couldn’t get back to sleep. My mind just wouldn’t shut off. I kept thinking about how I could create them, and how I wanted them to look. Plus, I wanted to tie them in to math, more specifically multiplication, since you know GB struggles with this.

So I decided to make it similar to a card game he got for Christmas. Each player will get a deck that includes mushers, dogs, and items for a well-packed sled. Mushers, dogs, and items can be combined to battle against strong mushers from your opponent’s deck. The decks will also have a few magic cards, like the Aurora Borealis, which I’m thinking will allow you to bring back a musher who has been defeated. Each card will have an attack value, and a defense value. And players will keep four cards on the field (table) and five cards in their hand to battle. I’ll post rules when I get further along.

But I wanted to show you one of the musher cards I made because I’m so excited by how well they’ve been turning out.

GB is pretty excited by my cards and wants me to hurry up and finish them. He keeps trying to get me to make the rules his way. But I think I’ll stick to my guns. I want it to be educational and not just fun. Fun, too, though, it’s gotta be fun.

I’m hoping that when I’m done, my older son, Jabem, can help me put the cards into a downloadable format, so that I can share them. At this stage, I’m not sure how you do that.