We made some home decorating decisions this weekend. After seeing a neighbors fireplace (more about me talking to neighbors in a bit) I gave Mr. Sloth the suggestion of stoning our fireplace rather than repainting it, he loved the idea. Then we decided to recarpet the living room rather than laminate it as we were planning. We of course don't know how we are paying for any of this but we are sick of looking at this carpet and we need a change of pace with the fireplace. In addition I would like to repaint the downstairs bathroom a more neutral tone and replace the upstairs bathroom rug (also in a neutral tone). The biggest decision though was to move Happy's crib into our closet until we can put up the walls necessary to make the playroom into Demands bedroom, then move Happy into the nursery. Got that??
Trust me it's more chaotic than it sounds.
Moving the crib was like building a ship in a bottle. Scratch that, it's like taking down a ship in one bottle and moving it to another bottle and reassembling it, but not before removing and relocating half the contents of your closet, including a dresser, when you've run out of storage around the house as it is. The crib fits into the closet with a half an inch on either side to spare. During the very last step of assembling the crib I thought I might not have enough room to put the screw into the side and fit the allen wrench in as well. It was close. Our closet is very large which is a blessing. The front part of the closet now houses "some" of our clothes, but the better part of the closet is for the baby. Crib, humidifier, monitor.
Why did we move him, you ask. Well the last week Mr. Sloth and I have found ourselves on the couch most of the night, every night. Happy wakes up (not happy) and will continue to scream at us from the short distance of 6 inches. Nights like last night, I was up every hour either tending to the child, checking on the other child, heading upstairs, heading downstairs.....ugh, I'm tired just thinking about it.
The other night I headed upstairs at 3am to relieve Mr. Sloth only to find him "hiding" in the bathroom so Happy couldn't see him and would therefore fall back asleep. I'm not making this up people.
In the unfortunate event of us being in the house for more than another year our plan is to have him in the closet until we can move him to the nursery and move Demand to a newly constructed bedroom. Then once "another one" comes along Happy can join his sister in her room and the new baby can have the nursery as soon as we choose.
(Disclaimer: There is NOT another Sloth on the way as of yet...at least that we are aware of.)
Anyway, that's what has happened here this weekend. I have yet to find a place to store my wedding dress but I love an organizing challenge I guess.
Wish me luck!
The Sloths
Lazywife, Mr. Sloth, Demand, Prophet, Rooster, and King
1 comment:
That's funny--Dennis and I did the same thing with Luke--moved him into the closet for the same reasons. I hate to say that it didn't work for us, but hopefully your closet walls are thicker than ours! We had to just end up moving him into Lucy's room, and then Lucy moved into Max's. But yes, we ended up on the couch as well...for over a year!
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