This summer has been the true advent of family games. Mr. 7 is addicted and will do just about anything in order to get to play a game of Dominion or Settlers of Catan. Mr. 5 also enjoys a good game but not with the same enthusiasm of his brother. Mr. 1 would of course love to play but given that we don't paticularly want our cards chewed on or all the pieces placed in random places around the house, we often wait until he's in bed before we playing. This has been fine during the summer when we've often gotten the older boys in bed around 9:30pm due to our late night games. However, with school starting this week we're going to have to find a new time to play games or mornings in our house are not going to be pleasant. We won't be so ready to rise and shine and get our the door in time! Even though it's made for some late bedtimes, we've had so much fun all playing together. Mr. 7 is quite the shark - don't let his monologue distract you because he has complicated strategy and you'd better pay attention. Although Dominion has been the clear winner this summer (currently the boys are saving their allowance for the next expansion), Mr. 7 has recently discovered Settlers of Catan and I think we may have a new favorite. There's also Race for the Galaxy - a game that involves too many rules for a distracted mom to follow - and Pandemic which is a wonderful cooperative game. Having big kids is certainly lots of fun although it does keep me from getting any work done in the evenings!
Oh, how exciting it would be to teach First Son how to play Settlers! I think he's not quite ready yet, though.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to start playing games at quiet time, when the littles are sleeping, but I have to get the littles to sleep first. And exercise before everyone is awake in the morning so I don't have to do it during quiet time. And figure out how to get dishes and laundry done some other time.
We'll get it worked out eventually.