The author and her family moved in with her parents. Courtesy of Melissa Noble When my siblings and I moved out of home in our late teens and early 20s, my mom really struggled with the empty nest syndrome . Even years later, when we were getting married and having babies of our own, she would talk about how much she missed her four kids. Never in a million years did she ever think any of us would be back living at home as adults. But as fate would have it, here I am, age 41, living with my mom and dad, along with my three kids and husband. In January, my family of five moved from country Victoria, Australia, to the Gold Coast, my hometown. To save money, my folks offered us the bottom level of their double-story home. For the first couple of months, they were overseas traveling, and then in March, our multigenerational living story began. I'm not going to lie — it did take time for my folks to adjust to sharing their space . After all, they had lived alone in the family home for 20-odd years.…