Family Movie Night (and a Giveaway)
As you can imagine, this summer has been a little on the chaotic side for our family. Between flying straight to Vegas from vacation in the Outer Banks, to three weeks living with Bart’s sister, then six weeks with my parents, and now six weeks in Arizona, it’s definitely had a touch of the crazy.
Bart and I have made major efforts to keep the girls’ lives as calm and regular as possible during this time so that they don’t feel totally unmoored. They have regular nap and quiet times every afternoon, and they are in bed at 7 on the dot pretty much every night. We go to church on Sunday, visit the library and IKEA weekly, and have regular meals as a family.
And we also reinstated Friday Movie Nights once we were all back in the same house.
In my usual fashion, we’ve kept things very simple. I know myself well enough to realize that if I make it complicated, I’ll just quit, so it’s pretty streamlined.
We have (homemade) pizza for dinner, and then we have (not homemade) ice cream while we watch our movie.
Just before seven, we pause the movie, get both girls completely ready for bed and put Ani down. Then we finish the movie with Ella and she goes immediately to bed once the movie is finished (since she basically never stays up late, even by 7:45, she’s usually asking “how long until this movie is done?”).
Sometimes, if I’m feeling very nice (or I want to get things rolling earlier), we’ll let the girls eat on a picnic blanket and start the movie during dinner instead of waiting until after.
. . . a Poloraid camera with film, and a puzzle, a bottle, a book, a changing pad and the biggest box of styrofoam peanuts you’ve ever seen.
Pampers is giving away another identical gift basket with all those goodies to one reader. Yippee! (Also, save the box and peanuts – my girls have been playing in it daily for two weeks. We may be a little starved for toys around here).
what a great idea! i will have to start this at my house once my daughter is older – maybe with pasta or some other takeout since my daughter has pizza for lunch every friday at daycare.
We always watched movies on Fridays when I was growing up. My three year old would love continuing that tradition. And my husband would love the pizza every Friday tradition.
I'm actually pregnant with my first, so we don't have any routines/traditions yet. 🙂 I hope to start a sleep routine first (ha), and then add in some fun routines like a family movie night later on!
We read aloud at the table after dinner and before we do the dishes.
French bread Friday! We pick up some fresh produce, bread, and samples of fancy cheeses from Sprouts and have a picnic together every week.
Sunday dinners at Grandma and Papa's house with cousins!
Would have to say that we love to wake up to homemade croissants on Sunday morning – rafflecopter – shaunie
Dinner as a family every night!
we love doing story time before bed
We love Friday movie nights too!
Every Saturday night we have dinner at Souplantation. Salad and soup with tons of choices for the kids, win-win
movie night every friday night!
One of our favorite routines is reading bedtime stories before bed.
We have family movie night once a week, too. Pizza or tacos while watching a movie the kids usually picked out. 🙂
We have Friday movie nights too!
We love to go out to eat as a family. Esp. Those nights kids eat free at places 🙂 we also like to do fam movie and or game nights!
We love bedtime! That's our favorite routine.
Walking around the block pointing out things in nature
Love bath time, the kids have so much fun