With no major project slated for the two-week break we took over the holidays (um, the kitchen update left us too broke to take on our pending master bedroom project), we had to come up with other ways to entertain ourselves.
Somewhere along the line we though up Monopoly…
We started our first game ever that first night around 7 PM.  Next thing I knew John was excusing himself at 8:15 PM to put Hanny and Katriel to bed.  THEN the next thing I knew it was 10:20 PM!  For! Real!  I decided that we’d have to just end the game at 11 PM, because, well, do I really NEED a because???
 
Tabby was the first to go out… but she played well against these vultures. 

We played multiple times over the course of the second week of vacation.  It was mostly fun.  Mostly.
How did we manage this with our two too-young-for-Monopoly-girlies?
Well, we tried to do it during Katriel’s naptime.  And Johanna would just play dolls near us. 

Or… in the case of at least two evening games I know of…

Heh – thanks technology!
But don’t worry.  We played LOTS of Princess-friendly games, as well, over our break. 
She’s a CandyLand queen!