like mother, like daughter
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hobbitomm brought E. over to play with Gwen while Joel and I were working on things at the new house, and helpful let himself get roped into helping retile the bathroom and then paint Gwen's room while I took the girls to the playground. (E. to Gwen: "Sara's very old, that's why she can't push us on the swing for very long." I was not averse to perpetuating this idea.) We finished the first coat, and then decided that we'd come back on Monday evening and do the second coat, and also spend our first night in the new place -- we've got a decent air mattress and Gwen's travel bed, and though we don't have a working bathtub/shower, fridge, oven, or microwave, we had leftovers Joel could bring over for supper, and I told Gwen that we would get donuts for breakfast on the way to nursery Monday morning. The biggest problem about trying to do any work in the evenings is that by the time we both get to the new place and eat supper, there's maybe 20 min. before we have to turn around and head back to get Gwen to bed on time.
The sticking point was that if we were painting in her bedroom, she wouldn't be able to be sleeping in it. I thought maybe we could put her travel bed in the hallway and then I'd bring along her tent and set it up over that to try to make it dark and enclosed enough, but when we got over there, I had a much, much better idea. And thus, Monday night saw me telling my daughter, "As a special treat, just this one time, tonight, you can sleep in the storage closet!" The closet is under the eaves at the top of the stairs, and is remarkably big. She's been using it as a play place while it's still empty, and was THRILLED at the idea of getting to sleep in there. Heck, if it wasn't violating all sorts of health and safety codes, I'm sure, I'd consider making it her bedroom and leaving her room as storage/guest room until we get the attic converted! As the person who had a fort underneath the stairwell to the basement while a teenager, and who's preferred place to sleep at her grandparents' house was underneath the spiral staircase, I wholly understand Gwen's delight at getting to sleep in that little nook, and it worked great -- it was dark and quiet and we were able to work until late and she slept until 7:30 without any issue.
We've gotten two coats of paint on in Gwen's room, and I'm really pleased with our choice. This is after one coat:
When the sun shines in, the room glows. We've got dinosaur decals to add, and she's requested rainbow curtains, for which I'm thinking the thing to do might be simply buy a couple of Pride flags!
hobbitomm brought E. over to play with Gwen while Joel and I were working on things at the new house, and helpful let himself get roped into helping retile the bathroom and then paint Gwen's room while I took the girls to the playground. (E. to Gwen: "Sara's very old, that's why she can't push us on the swing for very long." I was not averse to perpetuating this idea.) We finished the first coat, and then decided that we'd come back on Monday evening and do the second coat, and also spend our first night in the new place -- we've got a decent air mattress and Gwen's travel bed, and though we don't have a working bathtub/shower, fridge, oven, or microwave, we had leftovers Joel could bring over for supper, and I told Gwen that we would get donuts for breakfast on the way to nursery Monday morning. The biggest problem about trying to do any work in the evenings is that by the time we both get to the new place and eat supper, there's maybe 20 min. before we have to turn around and head back to get Gwen to bed on time.The sticking point was that if we were painting in her bedroom, she wouldn't be able to be sleeping in it. I thought maybe we could put her travel bed in the hallway and then I'd bring along her tent and set it up over that to try to make it dark and enclosed enough, but when we got over there, I had a much, much better idea. And thus, Monday night saw me telling my daughter, "As a special treat, just this one time, tonight, you can sleep in the storage closet!" The closet is under the eaves at the top of the stairs, and is remarkably big. She's been using it as a play place while it's still empty, and was THRILLED at the idea of getting to sleep in there. Heck, if it wasn't violating all sorts of health and safety codes, I'm sure, I'd consider making it her bedroom and leaving her room as storage/guest room until we get the attic converted! As the person who had a fort underneath the stairwell to the basement while a teenager, and who's preferred place to sleep at her grandparents' house was underneath the spiral staircase, I wholly understand Gwen's delight at getting to sleep in that little nook, and it worked great -- it was dark and quiet and we were able to work until late and she slept until 7:30 without any issue.
We've gotten two coats of paint on in Gwen's room, and I'm really pleased with our choice. This is after one coat:
When the sun shines in, the room glows. We've got dinosaur decals to add, and she's requested rainbow curtains, for which I'm thinking the thing to do might be simply buy a couple of Pride flags!
