Family Friday: Play Nine Card Game
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My youngest (who’s not even into golf) loved playing this card game at a friend’s house.
In this simple, fast-moving game, players are dealt eight cards and then take turns drawing, discarding, or trading their cards for lower value cards. Like actual golf, the lowest score wins. Recommended for ages eight and up (although my kid is younger and enjoyed it), this game would be a great addition to your family’s game night.
Play Nine, The Card Game of Golf is under $20 on Amazon.
Thoughts on Meghan and Prince Harry? Do you think William and Kate will meet up with them at all this year?
Cross posting from main: Does this service exist and if so what can I expect to pay? I think I need to metal detector my lawn and a wooded area on my property. It’s about 2 acres. I intensely do not want to do this myself.
When my house was built in the 60s, the owner used the adjacent property as a big workshop. That property has since been sold off and a house was built there. The original builder of that house (not our house) still lives there and said it was a nightmare getting all the old equipment and parts off his land; they had to raze the land through a lot of layers of dirt/rock/clay, and he still occasionally finds things.
Idk if it’s from that time period or some other prior owners, but we’ve found some rusty mechanical parts on our property. Worse, we found a whole pile of rusty nails at the edge of our lawn where the yard meets the woods.
We have a baby who presumably will one day want to run around the yard and probably, against our instructions, in the woods bare foot. He will learn his own lesson about going in the woods barefoot – plenty of poison ivy in there – but I’d prefer to limit the lesson-learning to natural hazards and not, you know, hidden rusty nails and car parts. We would also like to get a dog someday and I’m guessing the dog will be barefoot. Can I hire someone to do a thorough or at least better than I would job of getting all this junk off my property?
Has anyone been to the Tetons and can recommend any hotels? Or any good activities? We have a wedding next summer and are probably going to tack on a few days near the National Park. DS will be 18 months, so we’re prioritizing convenience. We’d love to be around $500-600 a night, but I’m willing to go to $900 if there’s something really great.
Has anyone found good strategies to help with elementary age kids who have “effort” issues in school? My 4th grader’s teacher told us that she thinks kiddo is a capable student, he just rushes through things because he wants to be done and move on to the next thing. This is not a revelation, he’s been like this prior years in school as well as at home. His handwriting is sloppy, he skips showing his work in math so makes simple mistake, he doesn’t read the question carefully in reading quizzes, so gets the answers wrong, etc. He does not have any other issues, so far as we are aware (behavioral or cognitive) he’s just… a little lazy? (See also, him kicking his laundry under the bed rather than putting it in the hamper that is 3 ft away and also in his room, grrrr.)
We try to be as consistent as possible with him in making sure he completes his tasks appropriately and reminding him that you can do it carefully once or you do it twice, so any perceived shortcut is actually backfiring because he has to do it again. He’s old enough now where I would have expected him to grow out of it.
Any strategies that have worked in your house to help with effort at school (and at home)?
Hi all – I’m the poster that shared about asking DH to plan a few dates as a birthday gift.
Last night, DH and I are in bed, and he was like “We need to get those dates on the calendar!” Turns out he didn’t forget or doesn’t NOT want to do it, he just…doesn’t take these asks with as much immediacy as I do.
Thanks all for the responses about Lymes! We’re getting bloodwork today. Still not 100% convinced it is, but they’re testing for a lot of other things to figure it out. Luckily our pediatrician office is extremely responsive, listens to my concerns, and we’re in a major city with a great children’s hospital if anything crazy happens this weekend. We should have answers by next mid next week
Any ideas for a family trip in March 2027 that includes the following parameters? We plan to stay four days or so. This will be our first ever family trip- kids have never flown.
—family friendly. Twins will be 3.5 and singleton 5.5. High quality kids programming, not just a room where they watch movies. I’ve seen many where the kids club starts at 4 or 5 and the twins have major FOMO so that wouldn’t be good for us. Ideally we’d do a lot of family activities, but it would be nice to have a kids club option so we can have some quieter time and hang by a pool or something
—east coast or within an hour
—warm
—four hour or less flight from Philly
Sea Island GA checks a lot of these boxes but it’s pricey. We were set to book Club Med Punta Cana, but I got sticker shock from the flight prices.
($4500 for the resort, $6800 for flights)
I have not traveled in many many years so it’s possible I just have an outdated view of what a four-day trip *should* cost.
Fun weekend plans? I’ve not been home all week and am so ready to see my family and eat food that didn’t come from a packet. The plasterer has been there all week and is coming tomorrow, so home is less peaceful, more smelly (lime plaster!) than I had hoped but alas…