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A Family That Plays Together………

by Erinn

Now that I have children I want to make their memories special, something that they can look back on and laugh and remember how loved they felt. My children are only 4.5 but already we have packed in memories and I try to keep everything documented in case they can not remember, pictures, video, this blog. When they are old and gray I want them to remember all the fun we had together, snapshots of a life filled with love and fun.

My favorite childhood memories are ones that my family is all together. When the electricity would go out and we would all huddle around the kitchen table and play a board games and eat soup. Long, leisurely days at the beach swimming in the waves and looking for shells along the surf.
All piling into the car to go get ice cream after dinner on a hot and steamy summer night.

I want that for my kids. We eat together every single night. That is something my family always did and I want to continue to do that. Catch up on everyone’s day, plan weekends and reconnect. We also try and take day trips together. My husband will take a day off of work and we will go to the zoo, an amusement park or hike in the woods. We play board games with the kids, who can play Memory a record amount of times in one day.
I hope that this time we spend together can continue for all of our lives. I would love it even when they are adults and have their own busy lives if they stopped by once a week, sat around the kitchen table with some soup and a rousing game of memory.

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Posted in Parenting on August 10th, 2007

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    We also try to sit at the kitchen table for dinner every night, except for Friday, when we eat pizza in the living room. It was our goal when we moved to our house and had a kitchen big enough to hold a table!

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