I always enjoy hearing what works for other people and I like sharing things I like, it's part of the reason I have a blog. I've been doing these monthly posts for 10 years and they also provide a nice little snapshot in my life at a moment in time! See more here! Some affiliate links may be included!
This was the item I wanted the most off my Christmas list, a fact I excitedly told my nephew when he gave it to me (and I had told Matt previously that if it wasn't marked as purchased on my Elfster, that he was going to have to buy it for me). I am rolling my foot as I write this post. I have rolled my feet while on a work conference call. I can roll my feet while doing nearly any seated activity, especially at my desk, and it just feels so good. I think this will be especially helpful when I am running more (although I ran yesterday!). I can't get anyone to give me regular foot massages (to be clear, I'm not giving them out either) but this is close to the same thing.
We are very hit or miss when it comes to adding new games to our rotation. Monopoly Deal was a bit of a fluke last year. This is one I had heard good things about many times so I made it a family gift for Christmas and it was immediately a hit! I play the most with Sam but Matt will play if he's around. Luke isn't super into it but will play sometimes. It's easy to pickup and works for a wide range of ages. Like slap jack except you lay down cards (from face down in your hand so you don't know what they are) and say, in this order "Taco. Cat. Goat. Cheese. Pizza." and if the card you lay is the same as what you are saying right then, everyone slaps the deck and the slowest picks up the pile. There are 3 other cards with motion attached to them too but we worked our way into doing those. It's fun and easy.
I have accumulated enough puzzles at this point that I can really only add about one a year to my collection unless I want to get rid of some. This is one I put on my Elfster for Christmas and it was a fun one to do over Christmas break. Fairly easy to breakup the pieces into different sections and then tackle one at a time. Boys enjoyed finding places we had been on here too!
Wrangling cords is not the worst part of having electronics in the house (that would be managing screentime for the boys) but it can be a pain. These were an impulse purchase but have worked out pretty well so far. And we could color coordinate some of them to help people (me) remember which cord goes to what (the boys' various watches and electronic robots and remote control cars...I don't know what goes with what!). I like an easy solution to a problem!
This was our main family gift and the boys were so excited about it. So excited they promptly launched a basketball into a return vent that bounced back so far, Matt had to tear apart basement duct work to get it out. We played this A LOT over break and it, like the Dude Perfect videos, is the perfect age range for our boys. There are sports challenges and spinning the wheel unfortunate and other things they do on the show. The only problem with the game is that the box needed to be a little bigger and come with some organization because there is NO good way to put it all away. It just ends up a mess. But, over break we didn't even put it away daily because we were playing it so much. We bought ours back in October or something but I happened to look at the Walmart listing in mid-December where it said it had sold something like 5000 copies in the last 24 hours. Crazy.
What have YOU been liking lately?
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