It is no secret that I am always looking for the latest and greatest good deal! Each year,the youth group at our church sells The Entertainment Book . This is a book full of coupons for your local area (recreation, food, etc) and to my excitement they included a contest this year so that whoever saves the most gets theirs free next year! I'm in!
Last night, I made one of my biggest entries on my savings log so far ($11.00) and it coincides with our family game night. Sunday night is our family game night-it's a good way to close up the weekend before we start up school and our busy weekly schedule once again. We've played lots of games from games on our wii, board games (Don't Break the Ice & Sorry are recent favorites) and last week we played card games (miniature versions of Cranium) that the kids actually got in their kids meals at Chick Fil A. With my coupon from our book, I am using a free trial at www.gamefly.com. This is a service similar to Netflix, except, it is for video games. We are very excited to add a little more fun to game night-we are going to try a kids' dance game, Toy Story and of course Mario! The free trial is for 15 days (and yes, let's be honest, I will probably cancel after the free trial) and the normal cost is about $22.00 a month. But definitely worth a try if there's no cost!
Game night has been fun for us (I'll include some more ideas at the end of my post and please fill me in on any you may want to suggest :) and always changing. I know as the kids grow it may change to once or twice a month and may evolve to Family Night to include movies or going out for fun things as a family, but for now, Nathan and I make sure that there is at least one night a week that we hang out at the house and have fun together.
Here are some other sites or ideas that may be interesting to you:
Hasbro Family Game Night
Family Education
Kaboose
Million Minute Family Challenge
Family Movie Night
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