Vance Palace Tales: the BASEMENT Play room is complete (almost)

It’s the end of a VERy hectic week, and I’m happy I have some pictures to post of the nearly finished play/living room! We have a few more minor things to do (such as filling our frames with pictures) and some sorting and organizing of bins, but the big stuff is done!

It has been tremendously hectic since Katie moved out last Saturday. That was a huge day for me entertaining the kids while Dave helped Katie move all her things out, cleaning up the aftermath, and then moving IN all the new furniture and stuff for the basement. I think I made close to a dozen trips to Ikea over the past few weeks, (and while I do love Ikea) I’m happy not to have to go back anytime soon!

The days have been filled with watching the kids while trying to sort and organize, and the evenings assembling furniture and hanging up stuff on the wall which resulted in staying up way too late! I’m definitely one of those people who likes to get a project DONE as soon as possible, and so to just slowly work away at it over a month or something, is just not an option. I go crazy. So, I just work work work until the job is done! And between 8-12pm is my only real good CHUNK of time to get things done without the kids. Janna had a rough week with not ONE good sleeping night, and so every night when I’d crawl into bed way past my bedtime, I would be kicking myself in the bum, when Janna would wake up an hour later, and then again, and then again, and then Robyn for her feed, and then Janna one more time. Ugh. And so to say I’m tired is an understatement! Add in that Robyn had her shots this week, and so has been a bit more needy than normal, AND that I have been rather husbandless, I’m surprised I’m still sane! Dave’s school play ran this Thursday/Friday/ and Saturday and he ended up having to pull in a ton of nights and weekend and extra school hours because of his involvement with the cappies and music and media arts stuff with the school.

Anyhoo. I’m excited for a more normal week this week! And a chance to enjoy being in the (mostly finished) basement. I did have fun trying to come up with an area that would be baby and kid friendly, but also enjoyable for Dave and I as a second sort of living area. I also had to work around some interesting things like: super green walls that Katie had painted, low lights, yucky tile floor, etc. I’m happy with the results, and we are all really enjoying it so far!

I took some pictures tonight after Jesse and Robyn went to bed. Janna had fun photo bombing all these! Hope you enjoy. Thanks for reading. I’m out!

COMING DOWN THE STAIRS

ROLE PLAY AREA..I have different things I'll switch out every few weeks. For now we have kitchen stuff and animals...in a few more I'll put in our tool bench and tools