With so much on the to-do list, what better time to include your children along with you...to not only help you out around the house, but learn some basic home economics along the way.

When the only option is to be at home...make the best of it through fun, engaging family games. These Friday five favorites will help you get through this unprecedented time of unknown when most of the country is learning to handle our new normal.

It's not brown paper packages tied up with strings, but here are a few of our favorite things. These Friday five favorites got us through crazy evenings (cue screaming children, barking dogs and endless snacks) and loooong nights of starting our very first blog. Yes, the one you're reading now!