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bestcee

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My mother in law is visiting right now. I forget how much it throws off routines to have visitors! We had to kick munchkin out of his room. Plus, the other little things that go along with it like bathrooms and wake/sleep schedules.

Do you have any visitors scheduled? Or will you be the visitors this month?

( It's not bad, just different!)
 
We won't be having any overnight visitors that I know of right now. We have family that come over frequently though.

The last company we had overnight was last year when my grandma died. My cousin and her hubby stayed with us. Olivia gave up her room for them. She slept in Daniel's room, and Daniel slept on the couch. It is crazy how extra people in the house really do mess with the routine and the way things usually are . . . from snacks to towels to shower schedules to cooking, etc., etc. Not to mention the whole talking to people thing (I'm alone quite a bit and I really enjoy it LOL).
 
we do not have any more overnights scheduled. my daughter is just now getting to the sleepover with friends stage. we hosted one in early november. We have some playdates scheduled in December, so we will have some kids over, but nothing formal.

My house is just not big enough to have people spend the night. Someday.... :giggle
 
No visitors here but will be visiting my grandma along with my mum around christmas
 
My son and DIL are the only visitors we're planning on this month. I love having them so I don't mind the minor disruptions to our routine. Since Aspen is on her mission, they have the basement all to themselves so the bathroom situation isn't disrupted either.
 
No unusual visitors here, no holiday plans . . . but we have friends of my kids over every weekend, usually one or a few of them staying one or a few nights. I just keep doing my routine; don't change much. And it's a bonus when there are several teenagers here on Sunday afternoon when I get home from the grocery store, as there usually are because my kids' Pathfinder game is most Sundays. They're often on their way out the door to collect the grocery bags from the van before I finish turning off the ignition. :love
 
We always have family here between Christmas and New Years and then scattered throughout the year. I actually love having people in our home...especially at Christmas time since we are on a more relaxed schedule. It does throw me off a lot when it's in the middle of the year and we are trying to accomplish school and work.
 
We have visitors a lot, but they're family, so everybody just deals with it. It changes the dynamics of the household. We all play "musical beds" and share bathrooms that we don't normally have to share. We just got back from our oldest DD's house on the East Coast of Florida and everybody just "shuffles" the bedrooms around and we make it work. We had the best time and I wouldn't change it for anything. We do the same thing when they come over here.
 
The only real overnights we have are the grandchildren occasionally. It does throw off our routines when they are here, but that's not a bad thing every now and then :)
 
This Dec . Not as far as I know,but sometimes Tonys sister gets a cheap flight,and visits.
We often have family to stay,and for the most part it is great and I enjoy it.
We never have friends to stay,unless it is an emergency of some kind. When you live in a Holliday destination, you learn early on ,that if you do not say no from the beginning,you very soon finish up running a free guest house.
 
We don't get overnight visitors often, just family that stays a night or two here and there (except for when my youngest daughted moved back home for quite a few months). It was nice to chat in the morning and she isn't a really talkative morning person so we'd have coffee, she'd play on her phone and I'd read my book, then after about half an hour we'd start chatting a bit. She's a clean freak so I really enjoyed that, my house was so clean during that time. She also had her cat with her so we got to hang out with Noel too which Taz loved.
 
All of my family lives in NY and CT and we're in the DC area, so we're usually the visitors. We stayed with my sister's family over Thanksgiving and we'll be at my parents' house for a few days over Winter Break. This year my sister's family will be here for one night on their way to FL. Normally that's not too big a deal, but it's a weeknight before Winter Break starts so I suspect that the kids and I will have trouble getting ready and out the door on time for school and work.

I'm very lucky to have my family and am glad we're pretty close, but I hate the dynamic that living "far" from everyone creates. Every time we go up north to visit, the entire family gets together. I wish we were close enough to see everyone for the day then all go home to our own houses. As an introvert who really needs some alone time every day, I enjoy my family's company much less when all 14 of us are living on top of each other for 4-7 days at a time during every visit.
 
We just finished our basement renovation and added a new guest room, ¾ bath, family room, etc. We had our first guests over Thanksgiving (3 nights) and it worked out well with them having a pretty dedicated space. I love having guests, but I'm also always relieved when they leave, if that makes sense. My MIL will be staying with us for New Years for several days.
 
Back in May my MIL was here for a month-long visit. No, wait, it was only a week. It just felt like a month.

No visitors for this month planned. We'll go to my daughter's for Christmas Day but return home that evening.
 
We just had my sister's family come for a long weekend for Thanksgiving and they will be back again over Christmas break. I don't mind them coming at all because we've done so many visits for them that we have a routine that works. She has two boys about the same ages as my boys and they LOVE it when their cousins come to stay. They live about 4 hours away so they don't come a ton, but I'd say we try for at least one other non-holiday visit for them too. My parents live near me, so they almost always travel my way. My oldest gets kicked out of his room so the adults can stay in there and all four boys jam themselves into the youngest's bedroom together. They aren't getting any smaller, but they always want to stay together still and I think that's cute. The hardest thing is trying to feed them all when they come! :giggle
 
we had visitors at the beginning of the month for 1 night and 2 days - my in-laws. I find visitors stressful, but not as stressful as going to stay with them at their home.
 
We finished our basement last february with a bed/bathroom so while that's where guests will normally stay, our hockey billet player is living there, so we just have our one guest room up by the kids'. My mom usually comes in December for my birthday, but my stepdad was prepping for a colonoscopy that weekend :assslap SO they didn't come... lol. They will probably come over for a weekend in January or February. Thankfully no December visitors!
 
My son and daughter-in-love will be here over the holidays. It's usually great, but this year, we are in the middle of a home remodel....so it will be more interesting.
 
Daughter is in TX and can't come this year. Son and his family (5) plans are unknown as of right now. Praying for that breakthrough, especially cos his birthday is 21st. Rest of family ( on both sides) are 1,000 miles+ away. Hubster and I are trying to make the best of this (hopefully temporary) new normal of being alone. Forces us to rethink about the deeper meaning of Christmas, which, I would say is probably a good thing. :)
 
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