We decided the final day of Christmas vacation called for an epic game of Monopoly.  Eve decided at the last minute to join us, and boy did we pay for that!!!  She royal kicked our butts!!  By the end she owned every hotel (literally, there were no more hotels available for her to buy!) and was cutting deals with us right and left.  She was quite benevolent, but the game still ended with her owning everything and Lex and I feeling the pain!

“This is the world, Mom,” says Eve, waving her hand over the Monopoly board, “and I have most of it!!”

“Your eyes are gonna be huge. Your mouth is gonna hang open. I’m gonna make you mad, guys!”

I was proud of Lex for sticking with it and of Eve for practicing good sportsmanship… most of the time!

“I’m probably never going to jail because I’m so ri-Ich!” (with a sing song tune on “rich”)

I wish we had a few more weeks of vacation.  :-)