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Game Night at Blessings Bee Bzzaar: Play as Prayer, Family as Frequency

Let me tell you why we do game night.

Sure, we’re a business. We’d love for people to know where we are. We’d love for people to buy a honey or a tincture or a tea, something to help with sleep or inflammation or bad dreams. That’s all real.

But more than that, we’re a mother and a daughter, just two people who happen to be related, who also happen to be starting something new in a basement shop with crooked signs and chakra-colored cubicles.

Game night isn’t just a cute event for us. It’s sacred.

Because when I say “family,” I don’t mean the kind that’s built by blood. I mean the kind you build by hand, sometimes through grief, sometimes through laughter, sometimes through dice.

Our Origin Story (The Chaotic, Beautiful Version)

My mom is what they call the Black Sheep. The cycle breaker. The one who left. She was kicked out of her house as a teenager. She went no-contact with her mom when I was still small.

And for a long time, we didn’t have much, not just in money, but in people.

After her divorce, she realized just how few people she could truly count on. That kind of loneliness doesn’t just teach you how to survive. It teaches you what matters.

And you know what cracked that shell open for her? Play.

She started meeting customers at work who played D&D. LARPers. Nerds with dice bags and character sheets and vampire fangs. That’s how she found her best friend, someone who eventually became her chosen brother, helped us pay bills, taught us how to stretch a dollar, and helped raise me in his own way before passing not long ago.

That group of misfits and magic-makers? They became her community. And eventually, mine.

Even as the group changed, life happening the way it does, those relationships didn’t disappear. They just changed shape. And they’re still here. They’re family now.

Play Is What Makes a Family a Family

Growing up, I watched grown adults roll dice and pretend to be vampires and warlocks and werewolves, and laugh so hard they cried. I didn’t understand the rules, but I understood the love.

And I’ve never forgotten that.

Because I truly believe: families without play can become very cold places.

So when we moved all the way from Texas to here, a place I’d always dreamed of living, it wasn’t just about the scenery or the quiet. It was about finding people. Creating community. Dreaming bigger.

And that's how Blessings Bee Bzzaar Game Night came to be.

We filled the shop with games because that’s what we did at home. We carved out space so people could play, rest, and just be. We wanted to make a space where the laughter could be loud and the learning could be subtle. Where you could build connection, and maybe even heal, through something as simple as Toss-Up or karaoke.

Because when you play, your nervous system relaxes. Your armor comes off. You connect. You feel. You laugh. And then, maybe, you feel a little safer in your body. A little more at home in the world.

Building a New Kind of Family, One Laugh at a Time

Our goal isn’t to recreate the exact same family we had before. You can’t re-bottle that lightning.
But we can make space for a new kind of family to form.

Here’s the thing about being raised by a Black Sheep, especially when you are one too:
You don’t grow up thinking blood is what makes a bond.
You grow up learning how to build connection through love, through listening, through laughter, through play.

Most Black Sheep feel like outsiders. But I didn’t.
Because I was raised by one, being different just felt... normal.
I wasn’t isolated. I was embraced. Encouraged. Seen.

My mom taught me how to build trust from scratch.
How to heal without all the tools.
How to stay present in the hard moments,
to laugh when things feel heavy,
to find joy even when joy feels like a luxury.

And now, even if it's just once a month, we want to offer that same feeling to others:
That it's okay to be different.
That you can belong without fitting in a mold.
That joy, silliness, and sacred space can co-exist.

We're building a new kind of family here, one laugh, one game, one gathering at a time.

So, Why Game Night?

Because people are lonely. And the world is heavy. And a lot of us are trying to make peace with our childhoods while figuring out how to be adults.

Because life is weird and confusing and a little on fire, and sometimes you just need to play Uno Attack with someone who won’t judge you for throwing a Wild Draw Four like a supervillain.

Because joy is medicine. Because laughter does something to the energy in your body. Because singing karaoke with someone you just met can bond you faster than months of small talk.

Because when a baby deer shows up outside your sacral chakra window on the same night Jenga falls and someone yells “OBFUSCATE!” at the top of their lungs, that’s a memory. That’s magic. That’s sacred.

Come Buzz By

If you’re looking for friends, or something deeper than that,
If you want to win at Connect Four or cry laughing at someone’s karaoke pick,
If you’re building your own version of family, and want people who know how to treat it with care,

Then come buzz by the Bzzaar.

Game night is every month.
Play is always on the table.
And if it feels right,
maybe you’ll decide we’re your people, too.

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