“Who Gets Guest Room Priority for Pesach?”

We also have two teenage sons in a local yeshivah living at home and two adult daughters living outside the home in the Tristate area, for work and shidduchim purposes.

Trying to fit all the kids in our home comfortably for Yom Tov has become quite a challenge. Our five-bedroom normally feels quite spacious, but come Pesach, it feels small and claustrophobic. My two adult daughters (26 and 30) each insist on sleeping in their childhood bedrooms. Of the remaining three bedrooms, one is our master bedroom, one is shared by my two teenage boys, and the last one serves as a guest room.

For the past few years, my married son and his wife stayed in the guest room, together with their two children. This past year, they were blessed with a third child, baruch Hashem, and now they are asking if they can have two rooms, so the kids can sleep separately.

I hear them, I really do. They get off that international flight looking like zombies. It takes almost a full week for them to recover, and having to all sleep together in one room doesn’t help their jet lag at all.