Family Fun Night (?)

Hmph.  It's cold and snowy and if spring doesn't come soon, I may implode from the dreariness.  You know it's bad when I rejoice in an inversion that allows the day to be classified as partly sunny, just because there is a shadow on the ground.  I don't think I could live any further north than we do - winter seems so long.

Today was cold and snowy - imagine that - and we hunkered down at home.  Henry had a basketball game but was done at noon.  We decided to take advantage of the downtime and get some scouting and homework stuff done.  William has been very negligent about working on his Bear badge so we knocked out a bunch of stuff that could be done with the family.  Add to that Henry's FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences) project that requires him to do some light cooking, laundry and child care (snort) around the home and we had ourselves a productive day. 

Both boys needed to make cookies, so they made cookies together.  They actually turned out better than most of my efforts so maybe I should have them become the family bakers.  They both also needed to play a game with the family, so after dinner they played Monopoly. 

We actually play Monopoly alot in our house.  We aren't that big on board games - we prefer card games like Uno, Skip-Bo, and Phase 10 - but the one board game we play regularly is Monopoly.  I guess I should clarify that Jay plays with the kids alot more than I do.  Oh, I've played my fair share.  William went through a phase a few years ago where he wanted to play Monopoly literally every day.  I had to limit him to two afternoons a week after school and Jay would usually play with him at least once on the weekend.  We played all the time.  We don't play as much anymore, but tonight even Tessa joined in the fun:

They played and ate cookies and it was nice until it started to drag on and the kids started arguing about trades and properties.  Tessa started acting silly.  William adopted a covert personality and added extra syllables to all of his words.  Henry kept sneaking out his iPod to check the score of the Ute game.  We ended up calling the game.  Everyone seemed a little relieved. 

Is it spring yet?