Activities for home bound seniors...give me your ideas!
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Comments (34)We kind of flip flopped with the sleeping situation. DD dated someone for 2.5 years post college but they lived in separate cities 2 hours from each other (we live 6 hours from her). He came here twice and we put them in separate bedrooms (all of our spare rooms have twins, with one room having a trundle). That was our first experience with a BF/GF staying over so I think we just weren't ready for it yet or maybe because it was DD, not DS...I'm not quite sure. Later, youngest DS moved to Chicago after college and dated somone for a year, then they moved in together. When they came to visit, it seemed kind of dumb to have them in separate rooms since they were already living together. I set up the trundle but they ended up squishing into a twin....ah young love! I like your criteria MTN of working adults....See MoreGranny House idea. What is your opinion?
Comments (28)Bestyears! Great advice.I'm printing it out. Thank you. She has been here a week and I don't know when we are taking her home. She has gone out to lunch with a GD, to dinner with her other DS. She been visiting with all of her family that is here. She'd stay for weeks. She would not be alone as much here as she is there. She has been annoying me for 28 years and I'm great with her. Having her 'running her own home' instead telling me how useless she feels at mine will remove the annoying stuff. Her tape loop is fine. (I'm used to my Uncle with dementia and worked with Developmentally Disabled adults for 15 years. I gained skills there, trust me. I don't take her personally. Of course it's lots of work but she is financially set. I'll get a housekeeper in once a week. If we need to get away, people (family) are willing to come stay at our house to watch out for her. (Dogs taken care of too.) I've been down this path before and admit we've been in denial regarding her abilities but we can no longer be responsible children and ignore her current situation. She really isn't cooking much anymore. Sandwiches, etc. It isn't hard to run her over a plate of whatever we're having. I told her we still wanted to have sex on the kitchen table so no peeking in our windows. (She loves it when I talk like that to her.) Keep tossing out thoughts. I'm going over them with DH later. I know we are also teaching our children how we want to be treated and what a great family looks like. If I'm going bonkers, I have several phone numbers on my speed dial for instant relief. "Come visit her/get her, etc. STAT." What brilliance lives within this tiny corner of the www. Thank you all....See MoreWhat Activities Do You Do In Your MBR? ;O)
Comments (35)That joke is too funny!!! Sue - that's exactly how I feel at this time if I sneak off to my bedroom to read by myself. And honestly since time goes by so darn fast I choose to spend the extra minutes that I can find w/ my kids. Before I know it they will be teenagers and not want to be w/ mom or dad all of the time. Don't get me wrong - I get time to myself but it's usually away from the house. DH knows that if he takes the kids and leaves the house to give me time alone - he knows that I will just do stuff for the family anyways instead of just me. Beth4 - your MBR (and routine) sound absolutely divine! melle_sacto - don't get me wrong - I love both looks but they are 2 totally different looks: #1 (the one that I've loosely been basing our bedroom on) seems more 'fun' I think because of the pattern and color so to me that reads cozier: #2 As oppossed to another wonderful bedroom that is totally up my alley but has a completely different feel to it. So serene and beautiful but not as warm feeling. Does that make sense? Link below. Here is a link that might be useful: Beautiful Space (and blog)...See MoreI need activity ideas for a 3 almost 4 year old.
Comments (5)I could suggest getting toy cars, montser trucks or even dump trucks but in the end the kids really need to get out and play. I have 3 girls 3,2,& 6 mos. My toddlers have insane energy, I find they are the noisiest and hardest to handle the more time they have to spend indoors and I have a HUGE house. You said they rely on the family to babysit. Why don't you suggest to the family to take the boys to a school playground. That's what I do (until my fence and swingset are finished) so the boys can release their energy. Or if they have a fenced in back yard buy a sandbox and have it shipped(one with a cover so animals won't use it as a litter box) Try to suggest things in a non confrontational tone. When my family trys to 'tell' me how to raise my children I would tune them out too. I understand travel we don't do it a lot but 3-4 times a year we travel 6-9 hrs south one way to visit family or go to fairs. As long as the kids can get out and just stretch their legs they don't give us too much struggle(we give them toys to play with but they always just end up hurling them at us or each other!) But what we do try is if we pass farms or even just houses we try to point out things like animals-cows-horses- dogs- cats- even wild animals, cars,trucks, tractors and sometimes even signs...See Moreshambo
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