Visitors|Pad Patter 7.3

[jk703]

Not too many overnighters, mostly since we are relatively close to most friends and family. We usually get Peters sister/family once a year for a weekend. Then his mother for a week or two in the summer.

We visit the shore house often and that sometimes has a revolving door but as time goes on, a bit slower than it used to be. We also visit Peter’s sister and Mom occasionally.

We host friends and family for BBQ’s and game nights but then usually everyone heads home except for an extra kid or two that might stay.

 

[bestcee]

We don't have to entertain them - they just sleep here.

Those are the best kind of guests! I love ones who don't need to be entertained!

When we first moved here (a tourist town)

I thought being in a tourist town we'd have more visitors. I'm glad we haven't though!

so it's usually us visiting everyone.

This has been my experience typically. Especially when we had no kids, and my siblings did.

And yes, I do think it'd be a "battle" to get my Midwest family to head to the East coast. This isn't a whine but just a statement.

I totally understand that! We tried, and failed, to get my family to drive down from their summer in Ontario to Mass - 7 hours.

I can escape for some alone time if needed.

That sounds awesome!

My husband and kids (almost all grown up now) have people over every Friday night to watch movies. I usually sit in the other room and do my thing, which often is scrapping.

OH! That sounds even more amazing! I need this in my life.

They visit our house a lot more since we had the girls.

I bet! Babies, and children bring out the visitors more!

 

[bellbird]

we sort of take it in turns with my fam (as DH's fam is local) to who visits who and it depends on pets too as to how long visits are, and it's usually just in school holiday breaks

 

[AJK]

We are probably the farthest north - so it's usually us visiting everyone.

We are south- with one set of parents in Indiana, and FIL in Fla., sisters in In, and Ohio, so WE do all the traveling. Even when my parents and we lived 20 minutes apart in SC, they visited us only twice?? So odd for the kind of people they are. Never have understood that!
This post is timely though, as we are about to have an adventure: Son and DIL are leaving for Romania tomorrow so the littles will be at our place for 10 days...a First! Daughter is here with us for the first 5 days so that helps, lol! It's the last few days that make me tremble, haha!

 

[cookingmylife]

I've just had a call from an old friend...the kind who lives far away and the kind you really don't have much in common with any more. She took two days worth of calls to finally ask what I knew she was fishing for ...Can I have lunch and then stay for a couple of days. Groan...I've already had a couple of this kind of visits and really don't want to rehash the 80s. Dick suggests offering one night.

 

[Heidi Nicole]

We are typically the ones that visit... we love to hop in the Jeep and go... and it seems everyone knows that! It's fine with me, tho... then I don't have to clean!

 

[EHStudios]

Normally I'm the one going to visit others, (which our family does pretty frequently). But yesterday was my first time hosting at our house!!! It probably won't be a frequent occurrence since the other families have lots of kids to haul so meeting in Ohio is easier for them than Indiana, but it was fun having them at my place!! Most of us live 1-1.5 hrs from eachother So every holiday & every kid birthday we get together. (This doesn't include family that live farther, but we make the most of those visits when they are in town too!)

 

[jenn mccabe]

We are south- with one set of parents in Indiana, and FIL in Fla., sisters in In, and Ohio, so WE do all the traveling. Even when my parents and we lived 20 minutes apart in SC, they visited us only twice?? So odd for the kind of people they are. Never have understood that!
This post is timely though, as we are about to have an adventure: Son and DIL are leaving for Romania tomorrow so the littles will be at our place for 10 days...a First! Daughter is here with us for the first 5 days so that helps, lol! It's the last few days that make me tremble, haha!

I know the feeling ... when you are the one farthest away (south, north, east or west!!! LOL) it's harder for everyone to travel to you .... it's easier if you are the one traveling to everyone else. Or most often we meet in a central location. Enjoy the littles! I'm sure you will get into a rhythm before your daughter leaves you two alone ... and wow Romania sounds SO COOL!

 

[bbymks5]

We don't have many visitors, and we definitely don't have any that stay overnight...everyone is local and my mom doesn't drive but more than a 5 mile radius of her house so we go over there.

 

[Tronesia]

No visitors for us. Our family is about 1,300 miles away. My parents have come here twice and in-laws once. We have been home maybe 3 times since we have moved this distance. My son will be 4 yrs old at the end of the month and he hates riding in a car for more than a couple hours. He did enjoy the airplane ride to where we live now. I just cannot deal with another plane ride anytime soon. I get sick and it's just not fun. I wish we could did have some family closer, but it is what it is.

 

[mcurtt]

Oh no! That would mean that we'd have to clean the house!

Seriously, we used to have overnight guests quite often when we (and the guests were younger). Nothing like camping out on the floor. But now, it is usually just a visit from one of my brothers a few times a year.

 

[bestcee]

We don't have many visitors,

Hmmm......And here I was thinking Phoenix would be a fun place to visit.... Maybe you need a visitor or two

 

[bestcee]

Oh no! That would mean that we'd have to clean the house!

I hadn't thought of that aspect! You are so totally right!

 

[gonewiththewind]

Most everyone lives within 30 minutes of our home, so we don't have many overnight visitors that are family. Occasionally we'll have family from out-of-town stay with us, but it's very, very infrequent.

Most of our company consists of drop-ins from family or friends for a meal or coffee.

A lot of times, we are visiting the homes of others, but never for overnights as we can just drive back home.

 

[JillW]

I was just thinking about this topic today … I picked up something new for our home and thought to myself "well we will enjoy it since we don't get a lot of visitors."
We used to have visitors quite often, but then grandbabies came along and our lives sort of changed after that … in a wonderful way.