Project: Child Relocation

Over the past few weeks, we have slowly been cleaning things out and giving things away and reorganizing what is left to prepare for the big job of giving the kids their own rooms.

While the power was out, I reorganized all our bedroom closets and linen drawers.

Last weekend we moved our office into our living room. Mostly.

I thought that all that prep work would help us avoid the house looking like this when we did the final move.

I was so wrong about that.

I mean, I guess it could have been worse, but I'm not sure how.

We can't walk in the living room, but we also are having trouble negotiating the kitchen and the hallway.

The idea, originally, was to paint and decorate these rooms before we moved all the furniture into them. We've scrapped that idea for a number of reasons. It is most important that we get the kids out of each other's hair. We are hoping that will make them more pleasant to live with.

Matt is always thrilled to help out with home projects like this. Disassembling furniture is so obviously one of his favorite tasks.

We're coming down the home stretch. . .I'll post some pictures when we get the rooms all set up.