Cherryopoly . . . Check . . .

Wasn't as easy said as done to get started.

First William wanted to play with just me.

Then, Liv came out and wanted to play.

I suggested we all play together, naturally...

So, William left.

I'll play it again, two, many-hour games of Cherryopoly, why not?

So, yeah, Liv and I played in two chunks yesterday.

I was shocked, and so was she, when we realized we'd played for around 2.5 hours before our first break!

I was glad that my "slightly-competitive-game-playing" self acknowledged I should probably give my 10 year old daughter some reminders like, "buy everything you possibly can, fast," (at least that's a strategy that works for me) so I did. But with all her dancing around the kitchen in great glee, big scores, winning the pile of money in the middle multiple times and riotous chuckles of "Money, money, money" and my continued not great luck...by the second half of play I wasn't as verbal probably as I could have been about the benefits of putting cottages (Cherryopoly houses) on those complete sets of properties.

What is wrong with me...she's ten!

😜

But, the dancing, the chuckling, all that money.

I thought it just might be a good Monopoly learning experience for her to watch how buying houses and hotels works in the game and proceeded to teach by example rather than word.

😉

😂

The best part of the game?

Boy did we have a load of big belly laughs when she was winning and that she was a great sport when she wasn't, playing right to the end of mortgaging her properties and me not charging full price for many turns at the end.

Next up...playing the 13 year old...

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Oh...and day one of homeschooling... I was only a half hour later on their wake up than I told them I'd be and they actually began their work soon after it was posted in the morning, only one of the two agreed to outside gym time and no one agreed to music class. But they got their teachers' work done at least . . .