Puzzling

Sometimes, you want to tidy up the house.

And sometimes, you want to do a puzzle.

But when your toddler has scattered the pieces to several puzzles across one or more rooms, and you want to tidy up the house, you often find yourself putting together puzzles. Which makes tidying up the house rather slow going.

Of course, puzzles are good for the kid. And it would be nearly impossible to estimate the joy that puzzles of dinosaurs, tools, or earthmoving equipment have brought him.

But sometimes you do want to tidy up the house, but you don't want to do a puzzle.