This post is not actually house related, but I need to write it down so I can show them when they are all grown up 😉

Sometimes siblings have to share a room.
Lillian is our oldest, so she had the privilege of having her own room. Even when Lavinia was born, we were lucky enough to have an extra room for her to call her own. When Ryan was born though, we were running out of kids rooms, so he had to share a room with Lillian (her room was simply the bigger one of the two kids rooms and it didn’t seem fair that Lavinia would have to share a room that was already smaller).
Then it all started a couple of month ago. We were talking about building the house again and out of nowhere Lillian started crying. It took me forever to get her to say why. Finally she said “You keep saying I’ll have my own room! I don’t want my own room! I want my baby brother in my room!”. And so the first tears about the new house were shed.
We told her that we would just decorate all of the 3 kids rooms, but if she really wanted Ryan to sleep in her room with her, we could simply put his bed in her room at the new house too. That seemed to keep her happy, so I thought that was that.

Then about 2 weeks ago, Lavinia wouldn’t fall asleep without crying anymore. First she was convinced that we would forget her when we move (I swear I didn’t let them watch “Home alone” 😉 ), and then she thought she wouldn’t get to keep her stuff or her friends. When I told her that we were only moving 3 kids songs away (because she has no clue how long 10 minutes are), and that she can still see all her friends and still goes to the same kindergarten and that we will take all of our stuff with, she kept crying because “We’re not taking everything! We’re not taking the windows!!!”. (While heartbreaking right now, I am sure she will love this once she’s 18 😉 ). After all of those issues were resolved she still couldn’t fall asleep so I tried to figure out what was wrong. And then she told me “It’s so unfair! I am the only person in this family who has to sleep alone in a room! I want to be with other people at night! I want to sleep in my siblings room!”.

So we moved furniture around. We are moving in a couple of month and I am spending all morning moving -heavy!- furniture around. Future-adult-kids-of-mine, if you are reading this: This is how much I love you, remember that, and now do something nice for me. Go buy your mom chocolate or something :p (I am just kidding 😉 )

So the bottom line is: Some siblings have to share a room. Most of those kids will be glad to get their own rooms, because they can’t wait to get out of their siblings room. Mine made me move furniture shortly before we move so they could sleep together in one room. All three of them. And they made us promise to keep them together in one room at the new house. So now we have 1 kids sleeping room and one toy room at our apartment and we’ll have 1 kids sleeping room and 2 toy rooms at the house. 2 toy rooms! I realize that this is only temporary, and at one point they will be glad to heir their own room, but man I wish we would have made them sign a contract to just live together in one room, we could have saved a lot of money on that house if we wouldn’t have had to built 3 kids rooms 😉

And then again I am proud. If they love each other so dearly – at least for now – I must be doing something right 🙂