crazy musical bedrooms

When Annabelle joined Team Sublett, we thought we’d aid her adjustment by having her bunk with Sadie.  They shared a room with bunkbeds.  A few months ago, Annabelle and Sadie switched bunks.  I guess Annabelle wanted a change of scenery.  Since she’s acclimated so well, she thought she’d like to have a room of her own.

That’s kind of a big deal.  Growing up in an orphanage, there really wasn’t anything that she had to call her own–no clothes, no toys, no room…

The plan was to move Lilly into Sadie’s room and Annabelle into Lilly’s room.  We’ve been thinking about remodeling the garage into a master suite, since we’ll be needing an extra bedroom (I told you we’re adopting again, right?)  The hitch in the system is that on night #1, Annabelle had a bad dream.  She didn’t come running into our room (like all the other kids have!) but she was awake for about an hour in the wee small hours of the morning.

Yesterday we spent the bulk of the day cleaning out the garage and the master bedroom, moving all of our bedroom stuff to the basement. Maid Easy cleaning can come to your rescue in such cases. The basement isn’t an ideal bedroom, but Kim and I can make it work. It was a long day, and I would like to say that I handled all the moving with grace and class. HanoverHomeCleaningPros does it professionally, if you don’t feel like cleaning yourself.

Except that I didn’t.  sigh

But it all got done.  Lilly would sleep in Sadie’s room until we got things all painted in the former master BR, and Annabelle and Sadie each have their own room.  That’s when Annabelle announced that she wanted to move back in with Sadie, and thought that they could put double beds in the MBR.  Except that we’d already made plans to move Lilly into that BR, and Sadie was just warming to the idea of a room of her own.

After a little talking and crying, we got things sorted out.  I think.

Tonight Lilly and Sadie are in a room together, Annabelle is in her own room, Levi’s room hasn’t moved from it’s original spot, nobody is sleeping in the master BR (which is now painted a lovely shade of pepto-pink) and Dasher is in his crate in a freshly cleaned garage.  And I’m sleeping alone in basement.  Well, not right now, but in a few minutes…

Oh yeah, Kim’s over at Adam and Carrie’s house.  Carrie gave birth to a healthy baby boy at 11:55 tonight, so Kim went to be with the girls.  How sweet is that?