it is funny how things change. we live in a three bedroom house. however, when we bought the place years ago, i told my husband that we would never use the third room for anything other than an office/guest room. we most certainly would never have any of our children sleep in there. it was dark with knotty pine walls. it lacked the bright cheery feeling i wanted. we had our oldest and i was so excited to fix up her room. it had great light from windows on two walls. i painted it a nice shade of green.
perhaps i thought we would move to a different house by the time we had our second child? along came number two and i did absolutely nothing in the way of a nursery to prepare for him. it wasn’t until he was about six months old that i reluctantly let my husband put a crib in there. other than when he slept, we never spent much time in there. i just couldn’t warm up to that space.
when we had our third child, my son moved into the bright, cheery bedroom with our daughter and I fought once again the idea of one of my babies being in that third room. however, the moment we placed a crib in that room, i kept noticing that the big kids wanted to spend time in there. truth be told that if we had put the baby’s crib in the cold, dirty basement, the big kids would be there in a heartbeat. because they are obsessed with all things that involve their baby sister. so i followed their lead and began spending more and more time in there. and i began to notice the light. i began to feel the warmth. we spend a lot of time playing in there now. i don’t hesitate to call it her room. in fact, i am so in love with those pine walls, i want my next house to have nothing but.
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