Thanks for coming...now sleep on the couch

[DisFlan]

Anyone else grow up in a family where you'd pack fourteen cousins in your house for a week? The grownups got the kids twin beds, and the cousins all slept on - if you were lucky - the pullout. Otherwise we slept on the floor, in recliners. And the "kids" could be as old as 30. And the house would only have one bathroom? Somehow, we all survived and had a great time.

I went on a short vacation years ago with my mother and two sisters - and my two sisters wouldn't share a queen bed - we ended up paying for a second hotel room because four grown women were too spoiled to share beds.

(This is not a suggestion that anyone stuff their DVC room over the occupancy, just a thought on how our expectations seem to have changed. We now want a real bed for everyone and the number of people/2 bathrooms to be comfortable.)

LOL! Yes! Our whole, big extended Irish/German family packed into the grandparents house for holidays. The littlest guys got to sleep in the bath tubs - and thought it was "special". At night, it was sort of wall to wall kids and younger adults in sleeping bags on every open space of floor. It's a good thing they had a big, old house. We all thought it was great!

We now do this to a (somewhat) smaller extent at either our house or my sister's for Christmas. We manage to cram everyone in, and we still have a heck of a lot of fun. If anyone has "privacy issues", they're welcome to stay "off site".

Last fall, we stayed in a 2 bd at BWV with my sis's family - there were "only" 6 of us, so it was a snap. No kids in the bath tubs.

DisFlan

 

[bobbiwoz]

We actually rent another house at Cape May when all of the family comes for a week. It just works better that way for us. Dh/DSis and I pay the bill.

Bobbi

 

[kimberh]

We have a big family weekend this week at our lake house. We will have people everywhere. My Aunt, that I mentioned earlier today, from Tenn, just called my Mother and they are coming. I didn't even know she was coming. This is just great. My mom started get worried about where everyone was going to sleep. I told her to calm down, we would put them where ever we could find space. We just have 1 1/2 baths, it will be cozy, but fun. No sleeper sofa either. Some of my immediate family will stay the night at their personal homes. There is not any way that we could all fit, but we will be together during the days, plus I invited all my friends for Monday. It will be a crowd.

 

[Buckeye Fan]

LOL... who is paying!?!?!? No guilt should be felt and he should be appreciative even if he has to sleep on the floor.

It is a son's job to sleep on a pullout or aerobed or sleeping bag. And frankly, once he falls asleep he could be on cold concrete and it wouldn't matter.

Don't worry about it.

Ummmm....my thoughts exactly! When they are in their mid to late 20s, broke and can't afford a vacation, they'll be THRILLED to sleep on that sofa bed!

We stayed in a one bedroom at Old Key West last October during the Food & Wine Festival. My wife and I took a friend who is 34 years old and has back problems. He slept on the fold out sofa every night for 5 days and never complained once. Of course, we drank enough beer in EPCOT each night where he probably could have slept on a bed of nails and been comfortable!

That's just plain funny!!!

 

[RumpleMom]

DH and I have slept on the sofa bed at SSR for 5 nights. It was very comfortable. We gave the grandparents the king.