Today is the Great Re-Arrange for the beginning of Fall.
And it’s going to be a doozy.
Seems like once a season, Kiki starts to get claustrophobic, and needs to re-arrange the entire house (or, at least, half the house). We don’t live in the lap of luxury, and so with two households worth of stuff — we never got rid of the flotsam when we combined households a couple years ago — it takes the spatial awareness and mathematical skills of Stephen Hawkings with the creative movement and flow of Mikhail Baryshnikov to get everything to fit.
This time, we’re switching the bedroom with the office, the playroom with the nursury, combining both girls sleeping arrangements into Fae’s room, moving the second couch to create a breakfast/nursing nook, and cleaning up the entry-way.
In other words, the entire house — other than the living room. We haven’t decided if we’re flipping that yet, to create space for a dining room.
The moving, disconnecting, reconnecting, stacking, huffing and puffing aren’t the difficult part. What the hell do we do with a five-year-old and a 3-month-old in the middle of all this? The entire house is going to be in flux, and it’s a typical Portland Fall Day (TM) outside.
Laurie Berkner will have to come to the rescue, I fear.
At least we’re not touching the bathroom!
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2:20 — Planning is finished; including step-by-step list and house diagram. Just waiting for the baby to settle down and Kiki to finish lunch before we get started. With the way Yuki is fussing, it could be a while…
Ha! There must be something in the air! I decided yesterday we had to sort out the playroom. What a job!
Good luck.
It must have been. Our best friend did a house-wide re-arrange over the weekend as well. Hope yours was a uneventful as ours!