family room

He initially moved his bed from the second floor of his Westside home down to the family room because he couldn’t climb the stairs.

It was early morning in mid-December when I awoke to the sounds of steady rumbling while lying in the top bunk in my 9-by-5-foot family room in Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train.

Nearby, a 5.5-acre property was hollowed out; a pool and waterslide remained intact, but the area that once housed a large family room and kitchen was gutted.

He’d always been change-averse; when I rearranged the furniture in our Ohio family room when Aaron was about 6, he was disconsolate, wailing for days like King Lear in the storm: “Why is everything different?”

Although much of the house has been updated, some of the rooms would still be familiar to fans of the movie, she said, including the kitchen and family room.