It’s Family Game night! What’s your family playing? Maybe Dad’s taking out a board game. Or maybe little Ben wants everyone to play video games. No wait, Mom wants to play Charades again. Big sister Chrissy wants to have a dance-off. Familiar games are lots of fun, but what if you bring Family Game night even closer to family?
strong>Create a “Family Trivia Night” game. The game master puts together a list of questions and answers about family. It can range from favorites (What was Grandpa and Grandma’s favorite term of endearment for each other?) to recipes (What potato dish is …read more

Video games are all the rage these days. All of my kids have at least one (or five or six) video game on their holiday wish list. Over the years we’ve acquired a PS2, an Xbox and Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii (with the Wii being my personal favorite). That’s a lot of gaming systems (especially considering we don’t let the kids play video games on school nights). And video games make great stocking stuffers. They are just the right size to slide in to the stocking.
We recently had the opportunity to try out a few new games you …read more

The last thing my kids expected on Christmas Day was to get a Wii. After all, we all know that they are next to impossible to get. Luckily my husband had gotten ours way back in October and we just let the kids think that there were none to be had. After all the gifts were opened we told the kids there was one more gift and sent them on a hunt for it. When they finally found it, they were shocked.
Once we got it set up, the fun began. We have four controllers so it could become a real …read more