Rearranging

Last night was spent running back and forth from the bathroom with a little puker. Luckily nothing gets them down too long.

Today was spent rearranging rooms, furniture and concepts. We have few rooms, one of which is large. So it has to serve several purposes. In the 4.5 years we’ve lived in this house we’ve tried rearranging the toy area, tv area, sitting area, at one point we had an area just for books. While a lot of people may not have toy rooms, I’ve found tha most homeschoolers do. Our kids aren’t gone 8 hours a day. We have bookshelves of books and puzzles and board games and maps and globes and art supplies in addition to legos and dolls.

Two weeks ago gandma got us a Wii. I’ve always been resistant to video game systems. Didn’t want them to disappear into it by the hour and most the games I’ve ever seen have been pretty violent. Besides, they can play video games on the computer andboth boys bought themselves Ninendo DSs. So why get a video game system? Silly me. Wii’s are amazing. Grandma’s answer was that for the summer, when it’s 100+ degrees here and no one goes outside, it would be some exercise. It wasn’t until I really saw the Wii in action that I got how one could get exercise while playing video games.

Hence the rearranging. The old set up had a wall of bookshelves, couch, coffee table, walking space and then TV. Just wasn’t going to cut it for the wiggling and leaping space needed. But that meant we had to rearrange the toys, computer, art space. So we’ve been dragging couches, tvs, bookshelves, from room to room. Since we had all the destruction going on anyway, we decided to paint all the living spaces a new color. So rearrange, see what fits, drag it away from the walls and start painting.

So we took books off shelves, moved shelves, put books back on shelves. They helped, they played, they hoola hooped, the played on the computer, the helped so more. One wall down. Only about 7 walls and one hall way left.