News alert: there might be a Lego shortage this holiday season. The company is having trouble keeping up with the demand. No joke-I just heard this on the 11 o’clock news. Well, now they’re really in trouble because after that report there will be a run on Legos. Can you imagine kids not getting Legos for Christmas? My boys spent hours building spaceships and airplanes and robots and anything they could imagine out of Legos. I marvelled at their skill. I remember Nathan digging through the bin full of the tiny plastic pieces searching for a specific tiny plastic piece. How does he know what he’s looking for, I wondered. And, even more perplexing, how does he know when he’s found it?! But then, much to my amazement, he would hold up a tiny piece of white or red or blue plastic and shout “got it!” and the construction would continue.

They can’t run out of Legos. One of the greatest educational tools ever invented. Disguised as a toy.