I am loving this time off! It's amazing what one extra day can do for my mood, stamina, creativity...
Aside from hiking for 4 miles yesterday, hubby and I also moved several huge pieces of furniture out of the young lady's room (she's at a friend's lakehouse).
Her room is way too small for all the big furniture we had in there and it was my furniture as a child. It was decided (by she and I) that all but a bed and a small bookcase would be removed, to be replaced with more modern, grown up and smaller pieces, i.e. 2 "comfy" chairs and 2 storage ottomans facing the small wall which will house a small flat screen tv (after the first set of grades come in, that is).
Funny how I just glossed over "moving huge pieces of furniture" like that. Actually, we were unable to get the moving truck which our storage facility loans out for free to clients - the damn thing was booked up solid for a week! So we had to move the pieces of furniture (did I mention HUGE?) down a flight of stairs, out the front door, into the back of hubby's SUV (one at a time due to size), to the storage facility, unload, trudge down the huge halls to our storage room, unload, then back again. 4 trips. That doesn't include all the work in her closet. OMFG that girl had some stuff stuffed in that closet......
But it's done. I cried more than once as I went through the visual and physical process of saying goodbye not only to my childhood (all that furniture was mine, remember), but to hers. I had to officially say hello to young lady/woman. Not easy at all.
We're now working on closet solutions for her. I NEVER want to go through what I went through in that closet of hers!
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Ugh! What a hassle! And so sad to see old furniture go...We have my grandmother's set of dressers in our room. Not sure I'll ever want to part with them but with all our moving, I'm afraid they might just collapse one of these times!
Very cool that you're letting her update her room :)
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