Setting Up a Family Night
First, I need you to promise that you won’t judge any typos in this post because a) it’s Friday and b) I’m tired and c) I have the beginnings of a migraine. Go easy on me, friends.
My husband’s father is in town for the night. He has a doctor’s check-up and it got me thinking that we should do something really, really fun. Harrison doesn’t get to see Grandpa very often so I’d like for all of our visits together to carry good memories. On the other hand, Grandpa is recovering from oral surgery and prepping for another. It is Friday, so we’re all tired. I was thinking that we will probably hit up the park after work to let the H-bomb run some steam off and then sit down for dinner, probably chicken pot pie. On the way to work, Harrison asked to watch “the princess movie” tonight, which means Tangled it is.
Sounds like a pretty cool night of family dinner and movies.
Then I started thinking that we should do this every Friday night.
We should create a little low-key casual family tradition where Friday nights are sacred as time to put on the fat pants and watch a Disney movie. Maybe make it pizza night? I just always want to have a set time in our lives where we connect as a family, to have one night where nobody comes in and nobody goes out, but it’s just us and our little relationships.
Do you have any family night traditions? Do you carve out one night a week to just be together and do something fun?
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We have pizza Fridays and love it. It gives us something to look forward to at the end of the week. I work weekends and I am off most Friday nights so it is the one night that we are guaranteed to be together. As J gets older we may start throwing in a movie too.
Sunday nights are our little tradition. We usually have a big Sunday dinner that day, so for supper that night we just have popcorn (with a few M&M’s mixed in) and watch a movie.
We used to have game nights, it wasn’t every weekend b/c there’s a 7 year age difference between me and my youngest brother so we had very different social lives
But when we did it was always fun. UNO, Clue, some sort of card game…didn’t matter, it was fun. I’m thinking of starting it with my 3 yr old, starting with Candyland and Shoots and Ladders.
We have been doing a Friday movie night. By Friday we are spent and our son is exhausted after a few days at daycare. So we let our son stay up a little later watch a movie and pop some popcorn. If we can’t get it in on Friday then we shoot for Sunday night.