I love the European model, people living together as one big happy family, open house and people in and out...in theory. But in reality, the month my kids stayed with me, the youngest one marked our new flat screen TV with a ballpoint pen, the next to youngest stepped on my computer and shattered it, the second to oldest threw my Kindle down the stairs, and one of them hid the remotes. Also, somebody picked up stomach virus at school and it swept through out whole family. I would write a blog about all this, but they might read it. I have 12 grandkids, and they come for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and my birthday. Which is great.