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[quote=Anonymous]This past summer, I gave birth to our first child, and my SIL (brother's wife) gave birth to their first child a few weeks before that. My parents live about 7 hours from us, and 4 hours from Brother/SIL. We also have another brother who lives 5 hours from our parents with his fiancee, but they don't have any kids.

While we aren't having any big gatherings anytime soon due to COVID, I've been thinking how us all staying at my parents house will work. My parents have a four bedroom house, so when ever we visit, we stay with our spouses in our childhood bedrooms (with the exception of my brother who doesn't have kids, as his fiancee's parents live 10 mins away, so she stays with her parents). Each room is a bit small for fitting two adults, but it's manageable. Similarly, there's only one "guest" bathroom, so five people are having to fight over said bathroom. Again, not great, but manageable. However, once the two grandkids are thrown into the mix, I could see it being problematic. There's no way a pack and play would fit in either of the bedrooms, plus thinking about all the other additional stuff that is needed to travel with a child. Additionally, the bathroom situation could prove to be stressful, especially once the grand kids become potty trained. Also thinking down the road, what happens when/if someone has more kids? Neither us nor our sibilings has a house big enough to confortable host all of us. While we haven't discussed with our parents exactly how this will work, I could see them saying something like "oh, it'll be fine, if everyone is together, that's all that matters!"

Fortunately, since we're at least a few months away from having to tackle this problem, I'm curious to see how others have handled similar situations.

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