Thursday I got into my car to go to work a little bit on time. C-c-c-curly hair (my The Way We Were people know this), baubles, frilly shirt, sandals...I remembered my cell phone. I even remembered to drop a couple clementines in my bag. When I get down my driveway and rounded the corner on to the street, I got my cell phone out of my bag and put it on my lap. In doing so, I felt the phone touch my skin, and I looked down to observe that I had left my house with no bottoms on. I did not have to walk out the front of my house, but my carport is not attached to my house, and garden homes do not boast tons of privacy.
Leaving your house for work with no pants on has GOT to be an SOS signal to anybody listening.
No, it's fine. I feel less like dead center of a catastrophe today than I did at the beginning of the week. Meds help. So does meditation. And highly artistic cinematic adventures. This morning I departed my house appropriately attired, albeit somewhat late, with a packed lunch (and yesterday's hair.) My kiddos come home today, too, and we have not seen each other for seven days. Love summer. Hate summer.
Not knowing what one's next home will look like leaves a person with TONS of creative space to imagine all the possibilities and what they would do with it. I am accepting the fact that the ONE unit currently available in the complex the boys and I want to buy into will likely be off the market by the time I can get to it. We three will spend a little time in housing purgatory - moving only what we need to wear, eat, sit, sleep or watch into an apartment and pass a couple months hunting for the right space for us. Ick, because that's a lot more moving than I would like to do, but okay.
Going back to the yellow and gray that the boys picked out, I have been doing some perusing.
I am in love with that rug in a distracting way. The description says it's hardy and good for high-traffic areas. My definition of high-traffic is "underneath the schmutzy butts and dirty feet of little boys," so our standards for what holds up may differ here. I believe in putting rugs down over installed carpet, especially if it's this rug, and in a rental carpet is usually so gross anyway. Rugs are a necessity regardless of the location.
The only thing that is making the idea of continuing to share a room tolerable to the boys is that I promised we could go back to bunk beds. Twin over full this time, because Jake is about to be a teenager, and let's give him more room. Also because there needs to be a comfortable guest space for Great Clare and Maggie when they come visit. I picked metal because bunks are such a heavy piece of furniture, and the space of metal makes it less commanding in a room. Not my favorite look, but I do accept function over form for this purpose only.
The Ikea Nyponros comforter is the same from the blue and green design board, only in gray and white. I'll not be spending $100 per pillow on throw pillows for their beds, but I would prefer something with a design, like this bird tree, versus something with a pattern. Are they too old for monograms?
I would like to get over our dependence on bookcases. I am not a fan of them, unless they go to the ceiling. This will create an eventual storage challenge, but they are winding down on the actual toys they play with. The Hemnes chest of drawers is what I currently use in my room, and it is bigger than it looks. I am betting that this will hold the same amount of clothing as the six-drawer dresser they use right now. We will have to figure out under-bed storage for the remaining toys, and maybe helicopters, tanks, Millenium Falcons, and Imperial Walkers will have to be incorporated in the decor. I think the Ikea PS cabinet would be a great foot locker at the end of the bed to store their movie collection, art supplies, jounals and games. Ikea now only sells it in red, so I would have to paint it, and I am thinking of painting a Union Jack on it in yellow, gray and white.
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| From Shades of Blue Interiors. |
I'll go with a heavy linen blend curtain in a solid color, and as God is my witness, I am GOING to put faux taxidermy in a room in my house, and their room seems like the logical choice.
I also want to get a couple clear jar lamps - one for each of them. They collect and keep small tokens - dog tags, coins, rocks, tiny pieces of paper - and these lamps would keep all those little things they cannot possibly live without in one place, and COMBINE form and function.
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| From Shades of Light. I will be finding a non-$219 version, or make my own. |
Yellow and gray is a great color combo, but it's been trending lately in nurseries, not tween boys rooms. Adorning the walls will be an issue, because what they have now is patriotic, Revolutionary war prints that I scored years ago in an antique store. Maybe some Fonville prints, like good Louisiana boys.
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| From FonvilleWinans.com |
Happy Friday, folks.
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