Put the 3 yr old and 6 yr old together and give the sister one of their bedrooms.

Why would the 2 older kids not sleep well? Are they usually up through the night? My kids always bunked together when we had guests and they enjoyed it. They also knew too much horseplay would bet one of them banished to the floor in my room so they behaved!

If you were in a smaller house, I'd suggest she sleep with you, since she's there to help. But the fact that children AND the host get their own rooms while a guest has to share on an air mattress is crazy. Especially given how much space you have.

Anonymous wrote:As a man, I'll be damned if anyone but me is going to dictate the sleeping arrangements in my house.

The person who most definitely does NOT get a vote is the guest. I will tell you where you're going to sleep, and you can either come or not, just as you like.

I would rather hire a night nurse than deal with a spoiled princess of a guest who insists on turning the whole house upside down for her own selfish needs. Did you come here to help out or to have a vacation? Sheesh.

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The guest is not getting a vote here and it is unlikely she is aware of the situation. But she should be getting a room because if she doesn't she probably won't visit again - something you would probably prefer, but OP probably would not.

Anonymous wrote:As a man, I'll be damned if anyone but me is going to dictate the sleeping arrangements in my house.

The person who most definitely does NOT get a vote is the guest. I will tell you where you're going to sleep, and you can either come or not, just as you like.

I would rather hire a night nurse than deal with a spoiled princess of a guest who insists on turning the whole house upside down for her own selfish needs. Did you come here to help out or to have a vacation? Sheesh.

Okay, I'm another man and I'll tell you that you're an ass. A good host makes his guests comfortable, especially guests that are coming to help care for his children. My children mean the world to me and someone coming to help take care of them and give my wife and I a break gets treated well.

OP--I already gave one of the suggestions above. I think the one right thing is that your sister gets the guest room. Your family of five has 4 bedrooms to share. You and hubby work out what happens to make that happen. Since there is currently a thread here on DCUM about a woman contemplating moving her family of four into a 2-BR apartment, this seems especially amazing that you cannot work out how to fit your family into four bedrooms to make room for a guest.

Anonymous wrote:As a man, I'll be damned if anyone but me is going to dictate the sleeping arrangements in my house.

The person who most definitely does NOT get a vote is the guest. I will tell you where you're going to sleep, and you can either come or not, just as you like.

I would rather hire a night nurse than deal with a spoiled princess of a guest who insists on turning the whole house upside down for her own selfish needs. Did you come here to help out or to have a vacation? Sheesh.

Nice try Jerry Seinfeld

As a man, I'll be damned if anyone but me is going to dictate the sleeping arrangements in my house.

The person who most definitely does NOT get a vote is the guest. I will tell you where you're going to sleep, and you can either come or not, just as you like.

I would rather hire a night nurse than deal with a spoiled princess of a guest who insists on turning the whole house upside down for her own selfish needs. Did you come here to help out or to have a vacation? Sheesh.

Anonymous wrote:I have a three month old and my sister is coming to stay with us for a few nights to see and help out with the baby.

We have five bedrooms.

I stopped reading here. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

I've got to agree with the rest of the posters--you have five bedrooms, there is no good reason that your sister should have to sleep on an air mattress or a trundle bed with your kid. Your older kids can sleep together or your husband can suck it up for a few nights.

Um yeah, I'm with everyone else. Your sister gets her own bedroom.

Your husband acts like a grown-up and a parent.

5 bedrooms and you're contemplating putting your sister on a trundle w/ a child in the room?

Unfathomable.

This is so far out of my realm of understanding that I am just astonished. Really? Your sister is coming to help out and see the baby and no one can even be slightly inconvenienced on any level. Was OP never taught manners and ways in which you treat guests in your home? I just can't imagine saying to my sister, well we have a perfectly good guest room, but we've decided you have to sleep on the trundle (!!!!) with a 4 year old. Nice to have you! Blows my mind. Not only would my sister be getting the guest room, she'd be getting toiletries and towels. We live in a 3 bedroom house, 2 kids, when my Mom comes to visit, the 12 year old sleeps on a collapsible bed in the library (which is technically a small loft but Library sounds fancier LOL) even though she has a double bed, and even on school nights. I wouldn't dream of asking her to share a room with my children when she was a guest in my home.

Team give sis a bedroom..

Wow. Yeah my dh tends to sleep in the baby's room since the baby is still in our room. And we don't have a playroom or guest room. When guests are here he sleeps in his own damn bed with me. And I don't even like having guests, but they do NOT have to sleep with the 3 year old.

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Anonymous wrote:Here I thought your post was going to say that you only have a two bedroom house and there is just not enough space for a guest. But you actually have a FIVE bedroom house. Your DH is an a$$hole. Your sister is coming to help. She should stay in the guest room.

THIS THIS THIS. As the former "sister" in this situation, I guarantee that your sister will want to have a space of her own to decompress ALONE for a little time each day. She is not used to living with the chaos of 3 kids. Since you have the space, she deserves her own room where she can keep her stuff w/o a 3-year-old getting into it, make a private phone call, or just escape from the chaos for a few minutes. It would be INEXCUSABLY rude to not give her the guest room. How you make that work is up to you, or should I say, up to your DH. I don't think you should have to sleep in the nursery either, since you are doing all of the hard work here. Your DH is doing nothing overnight, I don't feel bad for him if he is woken up a few times.

I don't often say this on DCUM, but why did you marry this jerk???

This. Your DH is a total dick. He can't sleep in the master for a few nights because he might wake up when YOU tend to the baby? I assume you just get out of bed and walk to the nursery? If baby is in your room, DH can sleep on an air mattress in the nursery. Putting a guest in with a 3 year old is insane!! You cannot seriously be considering that option.

Wasn't there a thread a while ago about an aunt who was being forced to sleep with a toddler on a family vacation? Is that your family too?

Indeed - here it is. OP, does this sound like your sister?

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/316143.page

Let your sister share the master bedroom with you?