A war game? Cool! Is it for the playstation??
Er no. It’s a board game. But more about that later 
Had my nice sleep in this morning 
Aaaah… feels so much better! We then had intentions of getting the house in order for friends coming over later, but I was getting distracted by the internet. Oops.
So when Sarah and the tribe arrived, the house was still in a bit of a sorry state but they said they didn’t mind Kids went upstairs and dissappeared with the noises of DS’s.
Sarah and I had nice chat time. She laughed at me for being scared and having nightmares over her book, but I tried to justify it by it being when I was ill and maybe I was just sleepless anyway… Hmmm! Had a good talk over my wibbles I’d been having. I do feel much better about it. I’m just a person who likes to be reassured every so often so thanks for all the nice comments and Sarah for listening today.
We had lunch and then I (foolishly?) said they could play the wii so that meant they were all downstairs and slightly more noisy. They all had fun and played well so I can’t complain really. Don’t think I remember any fighting. Although Mimi did manage to get herself all caught up on A’s bed and had to be rescued by Sarah! She was dangling by an arm I think!
James arrived home shortly after they left. The kids spent more time playing wii/playstations and I sent J to the post office to pick up a parcel that wasn’t delivered yesterday. I did well with using up some leftovers in the fridge for our tea and it had lots of veg the kids ate so felt good about that.
The parcel had some board games in. I’ve been really intrigued by all the cool games people have been playing recently and wondered if I could get something the kids might like. We’re not really very into games though so it was a bit of a decision to spend some money on them. I’d liked the look of Memoir ‘44 as something M would like and possibly would appeal to James as well. It had good reviews but as no-one I knew had played it I was a little wary. I looked at it last year and decided to leave it a while but bit the bullet just after Xmas and ordered it.
M was a little annoyed when I said I’d ordered it with the quote above. He does like war games on the PS2. I really wasn’t sure how he’d take to this game though. When he saw it he loved the look of it and wanted to play immediately. It took me a while to sort out all the pieces and get it ready for the first game but we had our first game this evening. A didn’t want to be left out so I said she could be on my team. Having to work out how to play was getting me a little stressed (I wanted to play with James first so I could get used to how it worked), but the kids were patient with me Once we got going with it they really liked it. It has strategy but also luck of the dice involved. M was a little moany about not winning and A let him win the first time *rolls eyes*. A then won the 2 time we played and he had another strop. Hmmm. But a resounding thumbs up from here so far. We only played the easy game and took out the strategy cards as it said could be done to play with ‘Young Generals’ so also lots of scope to make the game more involved.
One thing that I quite liked about it was that the battle scenarios are actually based on the real battles of d day so I imagine if we’re ever looking into the subject in more depth in the future it will give us a bit of insight into what happened iykwim.
We also got Ticket to Ride and Yahtzee but haven’t had chance to play those yet. Plenty of time though
