I Want To Have The Fun House

*Please note this post was written pre-quarantine.

I think some people like for their kids and all their friends to hang out at their house and other people prefer for their kids to hang out at other people’s homes.  I think there can be arguments made for both preferences. But for me, I like for my kids and their friends to hang out at our house. I want to be the “fun house” that all the kids gravitate to.  

Right now, with my son being 8 and my daughter being 4, my kids are not the age yet where they go to other people’s houses unsupervised to hang out with friends.  However, we do have kids over. I have good friends that I will offer to have their kids over to play with mine and they will play in the playroom or in the backyard and are pretty independent.  I am not bothered by noise in my house (kids playing, laughing, singing, banging lol) as long as the kids are having fun and being safe. I have a lot of things I can be doing while they play. I really like getting to know my kids’ friends and it makes me happy to see them happy.  And I just really don’t mind it. To be honest my kids are better behaved when they have friends over for the most part than when it’s just the 2 of them (they fight!), I think because it changes up the dynamic.

I picture our house to be the “fun house” as the kids get older.  I hope that my son and daughter will want to bring their buddies over to “chill” when they get to middle school and high school.  I picture having lots of snacks and food for them to eat and I also picture them going off on their own to chat or play games or whatever it is that big kids do. Haha  I hope that my kids won’t think my husband and I and their house is boring, uncool, or embarrassing for whatever reason and will feel happy to bring the crowd on over to our place!