Thought of this pic when i read your response!
When the H happened, we got a King sized bed.
Then he said he was ready to sleep in his own bed, so we got him a Full and got us a Queen (we could never afford a proper King sized frame, and our mattress actually qualified to be returned to the store b/c it was defective, so it worked nicely), and then it turned out he wasn't quite as ready as he thought he was.
But we're good with bed-sharing at this point to *go* to sleep and in case of nightmares (we quite often wake up in a different bed than we started off in at home), and actually on vacation it's much more pleasant than it is at home anymore, because we tend to get a King, and he's *exhausted*, so it's all good.
We like a nice BIG room, or set of rooms, but we'll share sleeping space, no problem.
It seems that with two tweens and a teen, we're always heading in a hundred different directions all throughout the year. That's why I cherish the time when we're all socked away in a single room. Some of my best WDW memories are of my family blissfully catching those morning z's under my watchful gaze. Sure, the kids (and maybe even DW and I) will likely be fussing and fighting as we board the first bus, but having us all so close together reminds me just how blessed I am. I know that in the blink of an eye I'll be dancing at their wedding or bouncing a grandchild on my knee. A little extra noise (or some rather objectionable smells) is a small price to pay for having this type of togetherness.
Awwww, sniffle sniffle!
Despite my happiness and joy with sharing sleep with DH and DS (especially now that I wear earplugs and DH has a CPAP with a facemask that fits), even I have my limits!
DH wants us to visit his Korean relatives, and for years now I've been making sure that he slowly gets them used to the fact that we *will* be at a hotel, and that it is NOT to be taken as an insult! It's just two cultures colliding, and we'll all need to temper our reactions. I won't think they are yelling AT me, and they don't get to think I'm insulting them by not sleeping at their homes.
And, unlike my dad and stepmom, I truly hope that when DS is approaching 30 (let alone 40) I will NOT think it's OK for him to share a room, or worse, a bed, with one of us. My dad thought that a 2Q room in Anaheim was OK for him, his wife, his two nearly 30 year old sons, me (at 40), and my then 6 year old son. No no no! I had to become a mutineer, slipping away when he wasn't watching to get a room for me and DS. And I got yelled at, too, for doing it. Family togetherness is great, as long as you've EVER once lived AS a family. Which I haven't with my half brothers, so no, that wasn't happening, LOL.
It's just got to work for you, OP! OKW 2 bedroom villas are incredible, with tons of space!
. But i will suffer in silence if it means I can do disney for cheap!
When at home we got work, homework, after school stuff, projects, so not a lot of time for real one on one time. So on vacation we enjoy being together all the time. We have had some great times when we put our 2 DD's down for the night in the hotel, we lay there and talk about the day we had and what we all liked the best. There have been many times someone would say something silly and all of us would start laughing. I am sorry but to me those are some great times we would have missed with having seperate rooms. Sleeping arrangements can change nightly, me and DW, or 1 DD with each of us or at times the all girl bed.
