Spring Break at our house isn’t a week loaded with vacations, activities and general fun. It isn’t all bad, the kids have plenty of time to play with friends, and there are late nights, with movies and popcorn. It is a nice break from the regular grind. Usually I have some big project that we all work on during spring break, typically it has something to do with spring cleaning and packing away winter clothes, cleaning closets, that kind of stuff.
This year was a moving day for my girls. Because baby sister is coming and needs a little room we used our week long vacation to move the big girls around. Right now our home has 4 finished bedrooms: the master bedroom, little brother’s room, and the other two were shared by two girls a piece. We (I) decided that all 4 of the older girls could share the basement room, when it was built we make it rather big with a big closet and it can easily accomidate 4 growing girls, that way the baby can have a nursery, and won’t be interupted when she is napping, on the other side an older child won’t be locked out of their room while baby is napping or woken up by baby durring the night.
A lot of people express suprise and wonder (out loud) at my general sanity, putting 4 girls in one room. At those times I am reminded of my own pioneer ancestors who slept many people in a room, infact I just finished reading a biography where one family was so excited and happy that they had finally built themselves an 8×10 foot cabin to sleep all twelve of them, and that they no longer had to sleep in tents. I would dare say that it has only been in recent history that it was felt that children were intitled to their own room or to only have to it share with one sibling.
That being said, I did want to make the move and the room special for my girls. They are good sports about the whole thing, and I haven’t heard a single complaint durring the whole process, infact I have had a couple of them say how excited they were to all be together. The biggest adjustment that has had to be made was the older girls learning to be quiet when they go to bed when the littler ones are asleep, also the first few nights they were up giggling and playing games. One of the first nights they were down there together they asked if they could “play quietly in bed”. This is something I let them do often, and it means that they can read or color quietly in bed until they are sleepy. Well after a little while Dadzoo went to check on them and found all 4 girls sitting on one bed playing card games. They were promptly sent to their own beds to sleep, but we weren’t mad at them, I love that they are making friends with each other.
Anyway, I will stop talking and show pictures of their new room. It has never been completely decorated before, so I am excited to have decorated a very girly room for my girls!
