If it's not a theme, it should be.
We're making some adjustments to the Forever Home. People keep growing, spreading, changing their interests. What worked five years ago isn't quite cutting it now. (Imagine, huh?) Today, we got some wild hairs waving in the wind that whipped through the TN Valley and figured if we can't work outside, we can work in. So we began. We emptied the playroom of every last Lego and so very many random bits of string, moved the toy shelves into the hallway, vacuumed, wiped, swiped, and touch-up painted all over the place, dismantled the boys' bunk bed and reassembled the erstwhile top bunk as a stand-alone twin in the playroom.
It's... been a while since I've had to move like that.
And I now remember why. ;-)
However, already we are seeing the benefits of the plan, and it's very exciting! Visually, bringing it all down a level is going to be huge. People will have the space they need to do their thing without us having to build on an entire extra house. (Building the Den would still be awesome, but there are so many other projects that need doing. We had to act now.) This is good stuff, here. Pics to follow.
Tonight, though, I plan to sleep the sleep of Those Who Move Heavy Things For A Living. (Or, more accurately, the sleep of Those Who Don't Move Heavy Things Very Often At All But Suddenly DID. Yes, that's more descriptive.) The kids are already there.
Kiss those babies!
~Dy
4 comments:
ah somebody need his own space? Sounds like you did a great job rearranging everything. Hope you are able to take a break today.
:-) Not too much. He's glad to have a room without Legos in it, definitely, but the boys will rotate out as if the bunk beds were still stacked - so each boy will have a few months in the separate room w/ a single twin. We moved the rest of their bed (the lower bunk and trundle) into the old nursery, and put the littles into the boys' old room.
Mostly, it's EmBaby and Jase - their things are larger (dollhouse, toy cars and train sets), and they spend more time sprawled out on the floor than the big boys do these days. So we thought they might enjoy the bigger of the bedrooms for the floor space (and we might all enjoy *not* having the Cars rug in the living room).
Also, we have low ceilings, and when we bought these bunk beds, we considered returning them b/c of the height on the one set. By taking those down, and putting the shorter bunk set in one room and single-height beds in the other two rooms, we're hoping to create the illusion of more space. (And free up wall space for shelving and such, to create actual useable space.)
We'll... see how it works. 8^o Staying flexible!
Wow!!!
You did more moving around than I realized...
Hope that everyone is settled in to their new quarters, and I hope that Mom can take a much needed break.
Can't wait to see the pictures!
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