Anonymous wrote:DH invited relatives of ours to stay with us for Thanksgiving assuming they wouldn't come. They're coming. We are very happy with this development BUT kind of don't have room for them all. Please help me think through options. Our guests are: one older woman (70s), a 40 something couple, and their child. We have five bedrooms, ours, one each for our three kids, and one guest room. Our oldest child is the same age as visiting child and has a trundle bed, so we're going to sleep the visiting child there. The guest room has a queen bed, and we have a double futon in our youngest child's room. We also have couches and air mattresses. ALSO DH's mom usually stays with us for holidays, but he's barely even considering her.
Option 1: sleep visiting couple in the guest room queen bed, sleep visiting older woman on futon in child's room, sleep MIL somewhere on an air mattress (probably in middle child's room).
Option 2: visiting couple takes the futon in the child's room, older woman gets guest room with queen bed, MIL sleeps somewhere on an air mattress
Option 3: give visiting couple our bedroom, give visiting older woman the guest room with queen bed, sleep MIL on futon, and DH sleeps on the couch and I on an air mattress in middle child's room.
Option 4: we get a hotel for some of these folks.
Option 5: ????
Obviously Option 3 seems sensible, but it would be most likely that MIL would wind up getting 86'd to the hotel and she would be very hurt (we can't well separate the visiting child from her parents, or stick the older woman on her own, she doesn't drive). Option 1 makes most sense to me, but I don't want to be a bad host sticking a 70+ yo woman who I am not very close with (she's lovely, just don't know her well) on a futon in a bedroom with a small child.
Other than the issue of not having enough beds, we don't mind having everyone stay with us, so that's not the issue. The issue is just where! Please help.
You stay in your room. You need 3 bedrooms. Any of your kids have a double/full or queen bed to share with a grandma? Any rooms with twin beds? relocate 1 child and put both grannies in there.
Your small children can sleep in your master with you either in the bed or on the futons/air mattresses.
2 old women-one in each of your kids rooms in bed.
couple-guest room or 1 of kids rooms.
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