I’m so glad that I have nieces rather than nephews.  I wouldn’t know what to do with boys.  They really just seem to run around and make a lot of noise in their free time.  Girls, however, are much more creative and fun!  We had to get pretty resourceful, but in our 12 days together my nieces and I did all kinds of fun stuff together.

Every day we spent some time writing stories.  We’d write quietly, then stop to brainstorm ideas together or read the latest addition.  When we finished our books, we gathered the family together after dinner and read our stories… followed by a question and compliment session (they wanted compliments, not comments lol).

Even though we’re all too old for it, we played with Play-Doh every day, too.  We made all sorts of tiny doh desserts for our imaginary bakeries… cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, pies, cakes, croissants, fortune cookies, etc.  Then we’d email each other every day with bakery promotions and reviews from the critics.  How cute is that?

Another big part of each day was the dog hotel we set up in my mom’s built-in closet.  We used all my old Barbie furniture and the girls’ stuffed dogs to create a posh canine vacation spot.  Each dog got a special therapeutic bed made from Lincoln Logs in their penthouse suite.  We even put the dogs on ribbon leashes and took them out for a drag walk outside.

Then, of course, there was the dress up day when we dragged out my old dance costumes. We also made charm bracelets with beads and tiny scanned photos of the pets in the family.  AND they spent many days trying to beat me at Pac-Man and Mappy, too… emphasis on tried.

I can’t imagine any boys wanting to do these types of things.  Well, maybe the video games… but the old school ones probably wouldn’t be stimulating enough to hold their interest long.  There probably would have been less bickering in the house with boys, but how many days can you really spend aimlessly running around the yard?