While Bobby Slept

When the school year started 2 years ago I went to work redecorating the main floor of our home.  It all began because I wanted a new window added in our living room.  Bob and my brother Tommy went to work cutting a hole into the side of our house and putting in a new window.  I had to repaint the room, which lead to repainting the entire main floor, which lead to new carpeting in the living room and dining room, which lead to the largest project by far...repainting all of the kitchen cabinets and getting new counter tops.  When school started last year, I said heck with it, I am not getting into any projects.

This school year has just begun and I think that I may have another project year ahead.  What to tackle this year??  The upstairs.  I want to paint the master bedroom, which in leading to...  You get the picture.  You can't really just do ONE thing.  Somehow it snowballs into more projects and more projects and more....  I guess you just get bored looking at the same things year after year.

A couple of days ago I said to Bob, "I want to switch Bobby's room and the spare bedroom."  And you also know, what Mommy wants, Mommy (sometimes) gets!!  Bob and I went to Lowe's while Bobby was in school on Friday and picked out some paint swatches, so I guess this is really going to happen.  What was I thinking???!!!  LOL!!

After Bobby fell asleep last night, I went in and started looking at the rooms.  Bob came upstairs and asked what I was doing.  Poor Bob wishes he would have just laid on the couch and watched tv.

Side note:  I guess that this probably a good time to tell you that Bobby's twin bed is next to our queen bed in the master bedroom with enough room to walk between the two beds.  Why??  Because Bobby is a wanderer and he also sometimes wakes up at 2-4 am for the rest of the day.  He could easily wake up and come downstairs (or outside) with out our even knowing.  We have MANY safety systems put in place to make sure that this never happens and the major one for night time is that Bobby is locked into the master bedroom with us.

When Bobby woke up this morning he walked into the spare bedroom and stopped in his tracks.  He looked at his shelves, turned and looked at his toy box, turned and looked at his dresser, then back to the shelves.  It was very comical!

The change did not bother him in the least, he immediately got to work playing hard!!  Bonus that I did not even think of, the hard floor is much better for Bobby's playing style of lining things up than the carpet in his old bedroom.

Now that we know for sure that everything fits well into the opposite rooms and that we all like the change, time to finalize paint colors and get to work.