Amelia has begged and begged for her own room! I painted her room her favorite BRIGHT color, and bought her a dreamy bed, we painted huge flowers on the walls and they have the only carpet in the house that is less than 20 years old, what more could she want? Let's just say that Amelia has developed the talent of tidiness, and Syd lacks that talent!
Our problem is that all of the bedrooms are already taken. We only have the 'family walk in closet' left, the little unfinished storage room in the basement where I dump all of the clean laundry until I find time to fold it... which is almost never lately and it usually ends up being worn again before it ever gets folded and put away. I definitely can't give that room away! Besides, it is unfinished which means it is 'SCARY' and cold, and I recently noticed a small bullet hole in the window!
So, the answer was NO! Until I got really sick last week and Ainsley and I each took a three hour nap. I woke up to the sound of furniture being pushed on the cement floor. I called the kids upstairs and they told me they were moving Amelia's bed out. I informed those silly kids that there was no way her bed could fit through the door! End of discussion, back to lala land for me...
UNTIL, bedtime came along and I went to my 'family walk in closet' to find some clean Jammies for Ainsley. I found a bed! A bed with a headboard and side rails and a footboard and a mattress and box springs, and sheets and blankets and pillows and even the electric blanket to keep my girly warm in the cold, 'SCARY' room. I laughed till I cried. I was so proud of my 7, 5 & 3 year olds who had taken apart a bed and put it back together, the right way, with no tools. I have no idea how they did it or how they knew how to do it!? Yet, I was also Mad... I knew that I would be the one to take it apart and put it all back together and... THAT IS A LOT OF WORK!
AMELIA'S NEW HOME SWEET HOME
Amelia is back in her room again. She enjoyed 5 days of having her very own clean room. On the 6th night I came home from YW's to kiss the girls goodnight and they were both in Sydnie's bed, snug as two bugs in one little rug in a warm & safe room. 
6 comments:
That still just cracks me up! That just makes me proud of how smart and persevering they are! What a riot--definately one for the books!
OH my gosh, I'm dying laughing! What smart girls!
This is hilarious! You never even told me about it. She kinds of reminds me of ME. I remember doing the same thing to have my own room. And I was fine with blankets for the walls and cement for carpet just fine with it.
That is hilarious and quite impressive for little kids to do that! Me and Janell had that same problem-I was the more tidy one and it drove me crazy but when it came down to it, I really didn't want to sleep by myself. I'm glad you let your little secret out as well-the laundry walk in closet!!
My brother and I were that age when we started rearranging our rooms. We would usually do it when no one was home or Mom was outside. We too moved things that kids our size/age should not have moved. Mom and Dad would always come in to talk to us or tuck us in and the shock on their faces was something I still remember. My folks were great about it, and it is one of those sweet childhood memories I would not trade for anything. We would do a switcheroo about once a year and from time to time I still get the bug to just move everything for no good reason. Now it is my husband is SO tolerant! My point? I LOVED reading your post! It made me laugh and remember.
That is so funny! I would have been mad too though.
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