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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not clear.
Do you mean to say that your current house id paid off, but you are buying a new, larger one so that your grown children will be able to return occasionally with their significant others + children and feel comfortable?

Well that sounds lovely!

Some observations:
1. Can you afford it?
2. Realistically, is your family the loving type that comes together for most holidays? On that note, please don't become that MIL who insists on having every holiday at your house to the detriment of your DIL's and SonIL's family get-togethers.
3. If your children are not yet adults and you are buying your forever house, think of handicap access - master bedroom on ground floor, no steps to walk up to the house, etc...

And please, tell your DH how you feel.[/quote]

Thanks for being nice about it.
I agree very much about the handicapped access thing.
No, I won't insist that they come over, it is just that when homes are too small, then kids really run away because it is tight. My son's bedroom is 10 feet by 9 feet...he'll leave.[b] Hope that they will stick around a few years after college. :)[/b][/quote]
Ours are still in college, but from what I here, the bold is pretty much a guarantee.  But I'm with you. [/quote]

I am not yet here, but my neighbors have kids who are now in their tenth year after college and all they can think of is getting their kids to move.  That being said, I'm mourning the fact that I no longer have a baby.  I also can't imagine not seeing and hearing my kids every day.[/quote]

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