Movie night

Jon had to leave for a teaching conference thing for the weekend so I decided the kids and I needed something fun and cheap to do while he was gone. While Jacob was at school- since as a general rule I avoid taking all three kids to the grocery store at the same time- I took the other two to the store and we picked out movie snacks and put together some movie packs. Then I made the rule- you can have the movie packs once all chores are finished and we are ready to start the movie. I haven't seen chores get done so quickly and happily in a while- I might have to do this more often;) In fact, Sam volunteered to help fold laundry with me to be a gentleman. Then we went onto the Netflix instant streaming and found something we could all live with- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory- and sat down and enjoyed each other. If the weather had been more cooperative we would have gone to the local Tulip Festival. This wasn't too bad though and cross my fingers we can make it to the gardens in the next week. I would like to take the kids out to the movie "How to Train Your Dragon", but for the price of tickets for the four of us we could buy a full priced Disney movie and snacks. Sick!