Multi-Generational Household

Really we kind of live two lifestyles. Lifestyle #1 takes place the vast majority of the time. In that life we live as a dual-career family of four with no extended family anywhere within a day’s drive. We spend a lot of time as a foursome and we do a lot of stuff together. Lifestyle #1 is a rich and full life. It is a crazy, but good life. Lifestyle #2 takes place when my parents visit — which is usually about every 8-10 weeks or so. When they come they usually stay for several days or even up to two weeks. They live with us. In this life we live as a multi-generational household. We eat meals together, all pitch in with cooking and clean-up, and all love on Kyle and Owen round-the-clock. My mom does the laundry. My dad does lawn-work. We all take turns going grocery shopping and running errands and checking our email and doing daycare drop-off and pick-up. The four adults try to keep up with our work and go to meetings and field phone calls. The two toddlers go to daycare shorter-than-usual days and at home they keep us all on our toes with their antics and wild behavior. After the boys go to bed we watch TV and chat. On the weekends we go to Little Gym and try to do at least one big daytrip or outing. We all come and go and work and play. Lifestyle #2 is a rich and full life. It is a crazy, but good life. #1 and #2 are neither better or worse than each other — just drastically different lifestyles. Both drastically different, but both drastically good lifestyles.