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My big gift to The Land & The Sea this Christmas was a Wii, although the hot game system was the Kinnect. They insisted they wanted the Wii more.

It comes with Super Mario Bros- not their fav, but it's mine. i spend an embarrassingly amount of time playing on it, knowing full well that i crumble when it comes to certain video games (sports video games, not so much. Killing ones? Soothes the soul).

In 1989 i purchased a Nintendo system, which also came with Mario Bros. Esme and i played it on almost every night we were together, and that was a lot at that time. i always thought it was cool that she enjoyed playing, sometimes more than i. Not to be sexist, but girls just didn't seem to have the video game gene.

That was until i had two daughters, one of whom plays obsessively and the other who likes them once in awhile.