Tonight we did "game night" (Fridays) to which SS11 always asks to play video games even as a family - it almost always ends with NO but he is hopeful. SS9 likes the family interactions which is sweet.

So we did the Monopoly thing tonight and it went pretty well although SS9 thought the point was to end with the most money in hand not property so he saved thousands of dollars and paid rent all the time. SS11 bought LOADS of houses in the slums and almost went bankrupt.

Naturally I had to think about their futures - can Monopoly predict spending habits I wonder? Will SS11, the manipulative troll we know he can be, become that sleezy slumlord taking advantage of the under privileged or that car salesman who sells shoddy cars? Will SS9 be the tightwad we often think he could never be because he sees nothing wrong with spending lots of money of pounds of silly putty and Play Doh?

I hope not though because I spend money like crazy but if I put it in investments and savings accounts, I am okay. When I was younger and played Monopoly, I used to be like SS11 ... Doh.