Today: Noah and Carl played Meccano for a bit and now Noah is playing Lego while I work on sorting out our (ahem) “backwater room” – the place outgrown possession wash up in the flow of our home. The purpose is twofold: Get the baby stuff a bit more organized, although it’s already boxed by size (but the small sizes are on the bottom!) is one. But the big one is that this room will eventually become my office so that Noah and the baby each have a room. We know the babe will be in our room for quite some time, so right now the simple installation of a change table and comfy chair in my office would do it. BUT long-term that will be where I will end up and I’d like to make it nice.
And it’s not nice. It’s a kitchen, although it doesn’t have a fridge or stove as they weren’t in our purchase agreement when we bought the house. For some reason people put the kitchen in the furthest corner of the basement – you either have to go through Carl’s office (the ‘bedroom’ of the bsmt apartment) to get there, or through the furnace room. It has a wall of cupboards and a sink and fluorescent lighting and a god-awful backsplash and hardly any natural light, just a small basement window.
So this is going to be a challenge. On the plus side, it was supposed to be a craft/art room all along (despite the bad lighting; we had Ott light plans) and I think even though it’s a bit small we can probably make it kind-of-both which will be good for my writing.
Meanwhile Carl’s playing WoW. And you know what? It doesn’t bother me. Partly ’cause it’s the start of vacation. But partly because this is kind of how our flow has developed; I do in fact do the organizing and I know I’m going to do it and I won’t say I never, even resent it but overall – it’s okay with me.
Also, he’s going to have to build a wall of shelves in there so he may as well rest now. Ha.
