Monopoly

All week my mother-in-law has been taking 1 or 2 kids to spend the night at her house. It was Corbin and Dyllan on Tuesday, then Braedi on Wednesday, and Eprharm and Faythe on Thursday.  I love all my kids, but it's a nice to break to have fewer kids every once in awhile.  Thursday was a different kind of nice--all I had at home were the older kids.  We played a 2 1/2 hour game of Monopoly without anyone destroying the game or acting out because they weren't getting any attention. 

It was a nice afternoon.  Over the past year I've been teaching each of them the tricks and strategies to the game and it backfired on me.  I LOST the game!  I spent most of the game in jail and on non-property squares.  I only had 3 properties at the end of the game.  Braedi had all the railroads, Corbin had a $1000 rent with a hotel and Dyllan had both utilities.  Braedi landed on Corbin's $1000 property and was able to pay him and still have lots of money left over.  I've never seen such a money making game.  I'd forgotten how long the game could last.  We ended it to fix dinner, but everyone still had lots of money and it could have gone on longer.  It was my favorite afternoon in a long time.