what is your family life like?

[belleandbete]

posted this by accident in AIBU so starting again here.

Just being nosy really- I've always been fascinated by other peoples' families and their daily lives. What is day to day life like at your house? How many people/ what ages and genders live there? Is it noisy and raucous with kids running around? quiet? Do you all spend a lot of time together playing games and chatting or do you all go to your own rooms in the evenings and weekends? Do you argue or get along well? Are the kids well behaved or is it constant battles?

In our house we have me and DH and 3DS's . ages 9 6 and 2. It is wild and noisy and we are all on top of each other all the time (smallish house but luckily with a big garden). At it's best it is a lot of fun- lots of laughs and joking around. At its worst it is way overwhelming and chaotic and exhausting and the big boys fight a lot. Definitely almost no sitting quietly in our own rooms.

Hi op.

Up until last year I had my ds 22 his gf 20 my dd9 and dd15 at home along with me dh and two large dogs

Was chaotic most of the time

Different working hours and lots of noise and general busyness.

Ds and his dg moved out and it's now a lot quieter and calmer and as the other two are getting older they will sit in their rooms or play outside whilst I get on and do things after work.

Don't get me wrong fitting everything in plus walking two big dogs everyday alongside the usual lunches homework tea other things is busy but the noise is definitely at lower level now

me, hubby, toddler aged 3, one Labrador. We all sit together mostly, it’s loud though! 🤣 dancing, singing, playing games, maybe a film.

I'm a single mum of one 6yo so a fairly quiet house. DS is well behaved most of the time, we sit together in the evenings and play together, and he will play on his switch while I cook dinner. Movie nights on the weekends with a blanket and snacks.

We are sometimes a quiet house, like right now as kids need downtime after school so they are watching tv/ on the PC and chilling. We will often play a game as a family though or watch The Simpsons together, play in the garden on the trampoline weather permitting. They love rough play and trying to scare DH which is quite funny. I'd say it depends on everyone's mood but today's a quiet day.

Oooo I love these threads!!!

Me, dh, 6month ds and 14 year old dog in our house.

DH leaves for his day job about 7.30am, comes home about 9pm 3 days a week and then 2 days a week he works as a photographer usually starting around 10am, most weekends he has a wedding to shoot.

I'm at home on maternity leave with ds and dog, we're starting to get ready for me to return to work, also 3 days a week, so have started to start the day at 8am rather than breakfast and back in the big bed for snuggles until 11 😳
We go to a parent and baby group on a Monday, I tend to meet up with a couple of friends 2 or 3 times during the week and we have a lazy day 😂, spend Friday afternoons with my dm. Evenings dh and I go to the gym, my dps have ds and dog. Weekends we visit the inlaws and they have 'the boys' while we go to the gym too.

Kids grown up and gone.

We are now working like a rabid wolf is chasing us.

But the dog keeps us chilled in the very short time we have together.

We eat ready meals/soup/sushi/baked potatoes - basically anything that can be made in 5 minutes before we start work again.

We are midlife/ older however you choose to look at it.
After raising almost 3 dc we are ready to spend time on ourselves. Our home is once again quiet but much bigger than the room we started out in. Sometimes dd is home from school and the others visit and once again it's filled with noise.
The quiet is lovely, almost a reward for the putting up with the noise and general life that was.

Our house is me, DH (my second marriage), DS7, DS5 and just had a newborn DS (husbands first child).

We live in a 4 bedroom house in a very rural village, only a shop and a pub so we are quite country types. DH is from a farming background, I’m a staunch vegetarian .

We have too many animals but I wouldn’t be any other way. I’m OCD which I know sounds like a massive contradiction, it’s hard being this way when a chicken wanders into the lounge but I enjoy it secretly.

DH goes to work at 7.30, I am on mat leave.

All food is cooked from scratch just because I drilled that into myself years ago when I lost a lot of weight and cut out processed stuff.

We consume more alcohol than we probably should but not so much the past few weeks with newborn and obviously I’ve had nothing since last March!

There are moments of madness and moments of despair (mainly when I look at the bank balance) but I’m incredibly lucky to have this lot and cry fortunate that my husband took on my sons when they were 1 and 3.

Me, oh, dd 5 and ds 2. Dd in year 1 and my lad due to start nursery in September. Oh works long hours mon - fri, usually 6.30-7.30 but can be hours earlier or later. I'm a SAHP. Sometimes days are okay and feel like I'm on top of it all then other days I'm drowning and want to scream. The dc get on pretty well most of the time, 2 year old really starting to push buttons but I knew it was coming !! On the whole I'm happy with life, would like a little more time to myself but I know that will come when they are teens!! I also know I'll be wishing for them to be little again then

We are me, DH and DS (18). 2 bed house, suburban town. Around 4 nights a week we have DS's GF staying over, then one or two nights DS stays with her, generally on Saturday night so then it's just me and DH. DH is shift worker so I have some very quiet evenings when he's working and DS is out. If DS's GF is here on Friday or Sunday we normally have a takeaway and watch a film together.

Nearly forgot the most important family member - our 3 year old Jack Russell.

love reading these replies thanks! Would love to do more as a whole family- eg games/ movies eetc, but the two year old usually wrecks board games etc so its . usually divide and conquer with one of us looking after him and the other with the big kids. I guess that will change as he gets older though. Love the thought of a big whole family board game tournament or whatever