THE Puzzle

Our family really enjoys doing puzzles.  We have tons of kid puzzles and even Callie can do a 100 piece puzzle with a little help and a good amount of time.  We bought the family two puzzles for Christmas.  The first one was 500 pieces and everyone easily helped with this one:

 

The second puzzle was 3000 pieces and Greg and I honestly had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we dumped it onto the table.  We immediately realized that we were going to need the leaf in our table.  Nathan and Annabelle helped sort out the edge pieces but after that we all knew it wasn't going to be a puzzle the kids would be able to help much with. 
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One of my friends commented on how her marriage probably couldn't survive such a puzzle.  Even though I am sure she was joking, it made me think about all the hours that Greg and I sat at the table together, working side by side.  We got along great.  We chatted, listened to music and helped each other.  We have very different puzzle making techniques and together we are an amazing team.  We mod podged the puzzle tonight and I do not foresee any other large puzzles for us in the near future, but we did it.  It was a lot of fun and I doubt we would have been able to do it had Greg been feeling better.  I guess you could say it was serendipitous that Greg was sick and we were able to spend so much time together.