Over a friendly Thanksgiving game of Phase 10 I was lamenting needing to purchase a deck having lost mine long ago.

Tonight the youngling and I were going to play Skip-Bo before dinner and we discovered that our TWO decks were both incomplete. I was going to combine them to make up the missing cards but then realized that they don't have the same backs. Hopes dashed again.

I remembered I had a Yahtzee box tucked away among our games that had been my grandmother's that I inherited. She kept all of her card games in this box so I also got her Uno deck that she and I played loooong into the night. I knew there were SOME Skip-Bo cards in the box and figured, what the heck maybe they'll match.

Well, they did, but I didn't need to add them to mine because it is a full deck. As I was closing up the box, I spotted some familiar words...Phase 10.

Thanks, Mama Olenia. I sure miss you.