Brilliant adult children.

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My 19yo daughter came home for lockdown as her workplace has furloughed her. I’ve not really spent much time with her for about a year as she’d moved into accommodation at her workplace and was out seeing friends etc on her days off.

I’ve absolutely loved having her home the last few weeks. She’s grown up so much since she’s been living by herself. I’m still working so I’ve been coming home to a tidy house and dinner cooked. I’m having to financially support her but it’s been worth it as I’ve had time to chat to her and spend some real quality time.

Anyone else found this and are you dreading lock down being over and losing that connection again?

Yes, my DD (21) is in her second year at university and I’m loving having her home. I also have younger children - 9 and 4, and she has taken the role of teacher with the 9 yr old, which has been really helpful.

She usually travels a lot during holidays and lives away during term time so I see very little of her. We do lots of running together (she’s much faster than me!) and we are making the most of this time, as we will probably never have such a condensed period of time together again.

It is nice to have a chance to connect with them as grown ups and have time we’re not all too busy to talk.

I have a 19 yr old still living at home, but we don't usually get to spend much time together due to our working hours.
I have loved having this time for us to be together and realise that we still get on so well. It is so rare to be able to do this with our adult children and I am enjoying every minute of this.

What a lovely thread ❤️

Aw this has made me feel so happy, that she has cooked for you and tidied. You must feel very proud!
Mine are still little but I can imagine one day feeling the same.

Yes totally agree. It’s a lovely bonus to have all the family together

We have our ds1, 24, and his gf, 22, locking down with us. They are very good company. They help and create mess in equal measures. They cook family meals and have done a couple of big supermarket shops, but the bathroom they use is a mess with discarded clothes and wet towels. Coffee cups left strewn around the house.

We have fabulous evenings with them playing games, and drinking Prosecco at the weekends. Overall it’ll be a really nice memory to come out of these crazy stressful times.

I’ll enjoy having my house back when it’s all over, for sure, though.

yes, my 20 year old is back home from college. It's been lovely having her at home all the time again with her younger sister, but I know she is keen for college to resume because she feels like she is missing out on training.

I'm having a lovely time with DS too. Youngest DS has been a little more tricky (quite a lot, recently) , but we're getting there.

Yes my youngest son is just leaving sixth form - he tidies up, asks how my day has gone ( I'm a key worker) and is sweet and fun to be around. It's so nice

Dd 27 moved back in in October, She had come back home about 5 years ago but it was a bit of a disaster between her and dh so I was nervous. But it has been great - she is really considerate about dh and me getting time together, and lay admire how she’s knuckled down during lockdown as it’s been much harder for her than us, not least because just as it became possible for her to see her friends again she broke her hand so can’t drive. She’s staying for another year to do a masters and all three of us are really happy about it.