I don’t remember the cartoon so much, but I do remember the powdery-sweet scent of the Strawberry Shortcake dolls’ little noggins. And I remember that as a little girl, I loved those dolls. So when the Parent Bloggers Network offered a review copy of “Strawberry Shortcake: Happily Ever After
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Growing up, I spent the holidays at my dad’s house. The big family gatherings always started with a lot of food and ended with all of the adults — and occasionally an older kid or two — seated around the table playing Tonk. I tried to find the rules to Tonk, but apparently there are several different Tonks, and not one of the versions I found is the version Dad’s family plays. I haven’t played it in a long time, but I know that there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how many people can play. Each player gets three cards, there’s discarding and picking up of cards and the goal is to get as close as possible to 30 points. Then someone knocks on the table, everyone gets one more shot at playing and someone wins the round — and most of the quarters in the middle of the table. A player’s game is over when their quarters are all gone. I think you start with three or four quarters, and I can’t remember exactly how you lose them or why the people who don’t lose them get to keep theirs.
As you might guess, I didn’t play all that frequently. Maybe one of my relatives will weigh in here with a more accurate set of rules for you.
My family game of choice leans more in the direction of board games. We played a lot of Cranium
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“This makes me feel old,” Rockford said. “I only know two songs on here.”
“Two?” I asked, surprised. I’d only recognized one of them.
“Yeah,” he said. ” ‘Toxic’ is that Britney Spears song, and then there’s ‘S.O.S.’ But maybe it’s not the one I know.”
“No,” I agree. “It’s probably not ABBA.”
Clearly, we are not the target audience for “Boogie Superstar