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Last night the hubby and SoccerBoy decided to take it out of the box and try a game. It was great hearing them laugh, soon we were all in the room laughing and watch the two of them try to figure it out.

Today, I decided I’d try my hand at one game with SoccerBoy and lets just say as always I’m the mom that just cant’ figure it out. But it was fun and I loved seeing everyone laugh at and with me. Once the hubby came home each of us played each of the kids. It was a very good time we shared and I think even though it is a video game it has now made its spot.

Now we do not have a Wii or anything like that, we just have a PS2 and a few games. But I think I’ll look for more like this in the future. We have talked about getting the Wii because I’ve heard so many people use it for the sports and that sounds like a great way to lose weight for me. Does any of you play video games? What about a video game night? Challenge the kids, or do kids vs parents?

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Playing Video Games With the Family

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Friday we all decided to hit up a brand new chinese restaurant out here, “Aikou” and I must say it was delicious. I made sure that we all tried something new though and everyone had to try something. Even if they never had it or didn’t think they’d like it. I grew up with hearing you never know if you’ll like it if you don’t try it. Today, our saying is “try it once, if you don’t like it never eat it again.” I figure this way at least they know and can say they’ve tried it. Granted I’ll probably never make them eat Rocky Mountain Oysters or a cow’s tongue but they’ll try other things. Oh and yes I’ve tried the second one, when I heard about the first one I couldn’t get near it. Course in all fairness I was almost completely vegetarian during that time period and had thought it was oysters I’d be eating. Do you make your kids try things even if they think it looks gross?

On Saturday we went off to a last minute baseball game, which I posted about yesterday. Today we played a few rounds of rummy and go fish and after that it was family day in the terms of cleaning house. Okay, so the kids didn’t honestly love the cleaning house part but they loved that everything we did was with them. I will admit to enjoying that too. Just think in less than two weeks they’ll be here all summer long….I’m not sure if I’m counting down until they get out of school or until they go back. What time of family time did you do this weekend?

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Family Time is Quality Time

But there is one good thing about all this snow. Sledding.

We got the kids new sleds for Christmas this year. [And then we forgot all about them and left them hidden in the garage until 2 days after Christmas. We're getting a little forgetful in our old age.] We decided to try them out this weekend when we were between snow storms. We have a big tobaggon (that holds up to four people), two new single sleds (that actually can fit two people) and an old sled that’s all scratched up and doesn’t slide very well anymore. We piled them all in to the car, along with the kids and headed to a nearby school with a very big hill.

I had forgotten how much fun sledding is. We took several wild rides down the hill, fresh snow blowing in to our faces. The hill was steep and bumpy and our new sleds just flew down the hill, going airborne over the bumps. The kids were giggling and having a great time. Even the teen.

Eventually we started racing down the hill. My husband and I flew down on the single sleds. (It was a close battle, but totally beat him by a good 2 inches). Then my husband and our youngest went down on the tobaggon on the longest ride ever. So the teen and his friends tried to beat their distance. But failed. It was hilarious watching the teens and my husband trying to outdo each other on the sleds.

Once our toes were numb and our necks were starting to hurt from whipping down the hill so many times, we piled our cold, wet bodies back in to the van for a trip to Starbucks. We rarely go to Starbucks for hot chocolate so it was quite a treat for the kids.

It was a great (and inexpensive) family day. What are you and your kids doing for fun this winter?

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Sledding With The Kids