It’s so quiet, finally, after a long day.  Time for my goal: to start this puzzle.

I LOVE jigsaw puzzles and I LOVE license plates.  What could be better but a combo of the two!

Back in the day when I had dozens of daily goals, this puzzle was on the list.  I bought it a year ago while on maternity leave thinking (or not as the case is!) what fun it would be.  Because of course mothers of newborns have time to put 1,000 pieces of cardboard together to reveal a lovely display of license plates from across our nation.

But hey, here it is.  Finally open and ready to assemble.

I’m thinking about my big sister.  Katie was the master of jigsaw puzzle solving in my family.  Doesn’t every family have one?  I think Dad even built her a special board that could travel throughout the house without disturbing the pieces all organized in little piles by color or theme.  Katie always let me help her and she taught me the Cardinal Rule of the jigsaw puzzle: build the frame first.  If you had a frame, the rest just fell into place.

So tonight, I’ll start on the frame.