My kids came up with the best game in the whole wide world. This was amazingly done without any help from me. After one of those try to catch up after a couple overwhelming crazy busy, 4 kids are hard to manage type of weeks. I get my game on and start putting my house back in order. It ends with a call for three of my kids to gather in the family room and I dump a large basket of mismatched socks in front of the three of them and say "Nobody is leaving this room until these all have a match." I walk over to the kitchen to get busy sorting through "everything ends up here" cupboard and look over a few minutes later to see cooperative non lolly gagging around work. I comment how happy this is making me to see all of them working together and they respond...... Yeah mom we are playing a game. When you find a match you put it in your own pile and then the one with the most matches wins. I have never in all my parenting years seen a basket of mismatched socks disappear so quickly.
Sure hope this game becomes a favorite of theirs like it became an instant favorite of mine to watch.

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