Lest you think I am too sentimental

[speckledfrog]

I get it, but that's a bit rough.

[jenna]

My mom turned my brother's old bedroom into an office. My old bedroom is now the guest bedroom.

[melindafelinda]

I still feel sad that I don't have a room to come home to at my parent's house.

[firedancer49]

I'd keep the bed up

[speckledfrog]

Aug 1, 2012 14:52:08 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Aug 1, 2012 14:50:49 GMT -5 toledo said:

This is kind of sad, sue. How does he feel about it? When he comes home, he'll be more like a guest than a family member.

STOP IT. lol choked sob.

It already feels like that.

He says he's fine with it. I'm not changing paint or wall hangings, and am leaving his piano in there.

He might be totally fine with it. Or he might think he is because he doesn't know any difference. There's a lot to be said about the comfort of home when you've been off on your own. I'd wait until summer. If he comes home then his room changes at the end of the summer. If he's off gallivanting about then it changes at the end of the school year. I'm not bursting at the seams, though.

[speckledfrog]

Well, it sounds like you have it worked out as a family. Hang in there!

[sprky79]

Now he knows he can't screw up college. Good job Mom! :-)

[eightangryreindeer]

My parents moved during the summer before I started college. I had a room at "home" but it was never my room. I lived.

[janegold]

I haven't had a bedroom at my parents' house since the moment I walked out the door to head to college. My sister literally was moving her stuff into my room as I was packing.

[Deleted]

My mom had me packed up and moved out of my bedroom by the time I came back from senior trip the summer before I went off to college. They put a bed for me in the laundry room (this is not a joke . . . and it remained a twin bed even after DH and I married). They turned my bedroom into an office. When I really wanted to sleep in they'd throw my little brother out of his room and make him sleep on the couch. I survived. I get a little mopey about my bedroom sometimes but IMO it's even freakier that FIL won't let MIL so much as change the curtains in DH's childhood room.

[eddy]

Aug 1, 2012 15:16:14 GMT -5 janegold said:

I haven't had a bedroom at my parents' house since the moment I walked out the door to head to college. My sister literally was moving her stuff into my room as I was packing.

Same
It was no big deal. I slept in my sister's room. I never felt as if I had been kicked to the curb.

[Deleted]

Actually, now I think you should meet my mom. You could be her new BFF. You can pack up kids' rooms and clutch your pearls about taking red cross aid together. But my mom thinks I'm the smartest kid in the world so you will have to work out that obvious source of tension.

[dakotadangerdog]

It's just a bedroom. Right after I moved out my parents moved from our giant 4 bedroom house to a small 1 bedroom house. My sister still lived with them when they bought the new house. They told her she wasn't coming with, so better go find a place to live!

[circa1978]

Aug 1, 2012 15:16:14 GMT -5 janegold said:

I haven't had a bedroom at my parents' house since the moment I walked out the door to head to college. My sister literally was moving her stuff into my room as I was packing.

Nods. My mom's house is 3,500 square feet and she still had my room turned into a guest room before Homecoming. I didn't even have a key to their house. I muddled through OK.

[TrickyBob]

When my brother moved out, my Mom wanted to turn his bedroom isn't lots of different things. They never happened though because he left most of his stuff there.

When I bought a house and moved out, my Mom tried to convince my Dad to knock the wall out between their room and mine and make a giant bedroom.

He said no. Plus almost ALL of my stuff is still in my bedroom. I love going back there. I feel like a guest in their house though, because it isn't mine anymore. Yeh, the bed and crap in the room is mine but I still feel like a house guest.

[Deleted]

Aug 1, 2012 16:02:28 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Your mom loves you to pieces, Elle, and you are lucky to have her, annoying pride and all. How cool is it to know there is someone on this planet who really, really believes the sun rises and sets at your feet? I bet she is a hoot; you did not spring fully formed from Zeus' head, I am sure.

I would love to have lunch with her and sit around tch-tching about young people these days. How long did it take her to dismantle your room? I am thinking ds2 will have his stuff in there within a day.

I was gone for 10 days. My room was dismantled and repainted by the time I came back. I did go to Mexico with the threat that my parents would disown me for going without a chaperone hanging over my head - my mom might have waited until I left for school otherwise - but it was fast. Fast. Fast.

[sonrisa]

Aug 1, 2012 16:08:03 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

When they are both gone we will knock out the wall between our room and ds1's room to make one big room; I want French doors between the two. AND, we'll knock out the wall between the kitchen and ds2's room, so that can be a dining room, with doors off to the patio.

This sounds lovely, but isn't DS2 allowed home for the holidays?
;-)

[Deleted]

Aug 1, 2012 16:34:59 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

REPAINTED? Holy cow. lol

I had had a lovely black and hot pink theme. My mom repainted it yelllow.