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How many of you have game night with your family? When I was growing up we had game night every week and as we got older if we didn’t want to participate my father would actually have the cable disconnected so we would have no choice. Honestly it was a ton of fun! I remember playing the Game of Life with my older brother who always managed to have two cars with those plastic peg kids. The funny thing is he has the most children now as well!

We played Twister as well but I was never very good at it. I usually was one of the first ones out and then I spun the dial for everyone else. Another favorite game was Monopoly and we had a blast playing it. Once we even ran it completely out of money and had to cut paper and use it as money instead. We play games with our children as well. I want them to have the same fun and togetherness that I had growing up.


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Now as an adult I look back on those game nights as some of the best times I had with my family. We laughed and to be honest we learned at the same time. When I was the banker in Monopoly I had to know how to add and subtract and when I was too young to know how to do that I learned! It helped me so much so that I was a bookkeeper for many years. Playing all of those crazy games growing up made me who I am today and I hope they will make my children who they will become!

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  1. We played game night when I was a kid all the time. Lets just say that I have not done it for quite awhile. But it is a lot of fun when I get all the family together and play Monopoly!

  2. We have a game night 2 times a month our games of Choice are Monopoly, uno and Life

  3. I felt bad that I left a one sentence comment so I thought I should add something. We have on our game night a winner pick snack. So the winner of the games get a choice of what snack we will have during our game.

  4. We do a game night about once a month. We do ours with my sister’s family. It is a blast. The little kids always like to pick charades to play. It’s a blast to watch them act out all the different things.

  5. I love playing board games, we like uno, trouble, scrabble and connect 4! Looks like my kitty in the picture 🙂