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With both of my adult sons home, we've been playing a lot of games. We have some that we frequently play during dinner, games where you don't have to hold cards or something, like Rummikub, Farkle and Mexican Train Dominoes. My youngest got me a game for Christmas that fits the bill, too, called Qwirkle. It's pretty fun except he tends to kick our asses at it.
My wife doesn't like to play "complicated" games but she will play Catan. I'm not a huge Catan game because I feel it's too reliant on luck and if the dice don't go your way, you find out in a hurry you have zero chance of winning and the game becomes a grind. So we've been tweaking the rules and feel like we've come up with a decent variant that makes it more fun.
First of all is the robber. You can still use it like normal to limit an opponent's resources but you can also move it to the desert and just take a resource of your choice.
The second is the welfare variant. When a non-7 roll of the dice happens (by any player) where you don't get resources, you get a welfare marker (we use the ships from the Seafarers add on). Once your welfare markers add up to the number of victory points you have showing, you trade them in for a resource of your choice. The nice thing about that is it helps at the beginning but gradually becomes less influential as you get more points, so it keeps you from getting super behind at the beginning of the game.
We also play to 12 VP instead of 10 since it's a little easier to build. This all makes the game a lot more tolerable.
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