The Great Bedroom Unveiling, and Other Magic

There is so much going on in the above photo, right? That’s when my mom, sister, and sister’s kids visited. As you can see by the inspection stickers in the window, our bedroom was/is not done yet. I seriously can’t wait to do a final unveiling for that one. I just realized you might have read my title and thought this post was about the master bedroom. It’s actually about Des’ bedroom! That said, our room has about one or two final touches and then I will share the whole final thing. It’s been a labor of love – not much from me since I’m no builder – but I did have the patience and resilience required for a big project.

Now the kids have been sharing a room since Des was a baby. My mom got Scarlet a wonderful crib at IKEA that also turned into a day bed. When Des outgrew his bassinet – which didn’t take long – we had to turn the day bed back into a crib and get Scarlet a bed. Money was tight then and at first she was on a mattress on the floor. I still cry about it because she was totally happy and gracious. That said, one day she went to her friend Eliza’s house to play and we made her a whole new room while she was gone. I’ll never forget her coming back home! While we were doing our renovations this past fall/winter, we knew we wanted to give Des his own room. I wasn’t totally ambitious about it because I was fried and I hate clutter even though I’m not able to clean it that well. Then Cassidy just decided it was time. We were in NJ and Cassidy stayed home:

On his first night there, he was up until almost 11pm! We had put him to bed at somewhat regular time but there were a few forces against him. For one, it was Daylight Savings time so his body thought it was earlier. For another, he had slept through at least half of our four hour car ride back from New Jersey. He rarely naps! We kept checking on him and he’d be wide awake. We just wanted to turn off the Hulk lights to save batteries! At one point he said, “I’m awake because it’s so strange being all alone.” Aww! Finally, he fell asleep but I think it was after I had. The next morning he said the room was awesome and that he also missed his old room. I totally get that conflicted feeling – the joy of the new, and the slight loss at the only sleeping life you’ve known. I think it has died down every day since, until maybe I’m the only one that still sees it.