My Room (Guest Post By Mary Beth)
/During the bedroom switch, I moved up from the basement into my old/new room. This is the room that used to be mine and now is mine again. Since all of the little girls share a room now I have my own. Most kids talk about how they love having their own rooms but I have to adjust to not sleeping with either Katie and Karoline. It's a little bit weird to have my own bed and room. (Karoline now says she has two rooms: mine and hers and she still sleeps in mom's room at least half of most nights. Only Karoline could manage to come away from this project with 3 bedrooms). I do LOVE having my own quiet room though! We were not going to have to make any changes to the room except move my furniture up. Then we did the little girls room and their quilt didn't really match their room. Then the next morning, Mom moved my quilt in and it did match perfectly, though at the time I wish it didn't because I love that quilt. So... Mom said that if I wanted to that I could keep my quilt and we could just get the little girls a new one that was like it, or we could swap, or they could keep mine and I could get a new one. I knew that my quilt matched perfectly and so we cleaned out my new room and made another trip to Target. Now, after getting the OK from Dad, we headed off to Target and left with:
Polka Dot Wall Stickers
Polka Dot Curtains (They haven't really been hung yet. We need a bigger rod.)
And a Pretty Striped Rug
The rest of my room is:
A Dresser From Grandma and two white American Girl Doll shelves with free handed bows painted by mom.
A bookcase that is just like the little girls except it's the older version which they don't sell anymore, so this just means that it is green instead of pink and it doesn't have a toy chest drawer.
All and all, a GREAT ROOM! With a great theme: POLKA DOTS! We are still going to hang some pictures. The room didn't need to be painted either. It is blue. And the curtains make the light from outside shine this really pretty pink tone and my room looks pink-ish/purple-ish off of the walls:-)
Small Successes and Works in Progress
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I began a massive home re-purposing project. In an effort to make a new bedroom for my three little girls, I dismantled my "schoolroom." I had a pretty big schoolroom, full of a lot of "stuff." Now, I don't have a schoolroom at all and, I'll tell you, I'm thinking twice about just about all of this stuff.
To show for my efforts, so far, I have one very pretty space in the sunroom and one awesome closet that used to be a pantry but now houses hands-on learning materials.
The kitchen is super-cleaned and the new pantry is very well organized.
And I have a whole bunch of messes.
When I'm finished, five out of nine children will have new places to sleep. And I won't have bought a single thing. It's all about re-purposing.
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I got everyone up and out the door to Vacation Bible School by 7:15 every morning this week. Along the way, we all learned that we are glad we usually have no where to go in the morning.
Can you say, "nap?"
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I put the finishing touches on several pieces of pretty curriculum. It made me happy to work with gifted and lovely ladies to write them. It makes me happy to share them. It makes me even happier to see those beautiful books all neat and ready and waiting for us in those two spaces referred to in #1.
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I wasn't completely blown away when I logged into Typepad just now to discover that everything is completely different and I'm test-driving their "new and improved whatever." I don't, however, have time for the learning curve and this post is going to go up without the logo because it's not where I left it and I can't find it right now.
ETA: Apparently, I have no idea what I'm doing in this new Beta version because this whole post looks centered in my draft and it looks justified-left on my blog. Oh, bother.
