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It's not a bad thing as luckily I enjoy my children and their company :) but what does bug me is that quite often our evenings go a little like this...
5.30 dinner time for the little people.
6.30 bathtime.
7.00 hubby gets home from work (London commute!) - often this is much later... depending on the day and trains!
7.30pm story time (we read two books)
8pm bedtime.
8.30pm once both little people are sleeping I cook all over again for hubby (and sometimes me)
9pm grown up evening meal.
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Then I have a mad panic at 10pm when I remember there's wet washing still in the machine, pots that I haven't cleared up, a poo nappy in the bathroom from bath time etc...
By about 11pm we get ready go to bed and finally hit the pillows at about midnight for about an hour until the first little person stirs. For the next 5 hours we (usually just me) will be up about 4 times until about 6ish when it's time for hubby to get up for work or Play Time according to Meg.
This is pretty much 90% of our evenings.
So when I accepted Money Supermarket's big night in http://www.moneysupermarket.com/home-insurance/competitions/big-night-in/ challenge I thought very hard about how I could spend £50 to change our usual night in to something a little more special!
Firstly, the little people requested a games night so we grabbed some new games to play: They chose a game each from the ELC, one was a threading game and one was a fishing word game. We also grabbed a pack of kids card games and played snap, and some colouring in supplies!
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A great night was had by everyone! It's nice to break the routine every once in a while and just play games, eat good food and enjoy each others company!
New games and crayons £22.40
Film rental £3.49
Food £27.82
(Slightly over spent by £1.93)
Thank you money supermarket, we loved our games night big night in! X
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Sounds like a fantastic night in was had by all :)
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