October 11, 2020 – Midlife Creative

Hi Friends!

It’s been awhile since I last posted, and thought it was time for an update. Ellie ended up not going to college as planned. She is staying home and taking classes online due to the Covid-19 thing that you might have heard about. My first thought when plans changed was, “What about our promise to Malia that she would get her own room this year?” My 9 year old was supposed to take the college student’s room when she moved out. Now what?

Much to my surprise, my 17 year old offered to give up her room and share with her 6 year old sister. Why? I have no idea.

I think she was feeling sorry for me and wanted to help. We all live for these rare moments when our kids surprise us.

Here are a few pics of how the switching of bedrooms turned out. I wish I would have taken some “before” pics, but unfortunately I wasn’t that organized. This all came together rather quickly.
So….here are the finished rooms.

Malia’s Room. (this room used to be bright red, blue, and yellow. I wish I would have taken before pictures)

Malia’s vision was “black and white with fake plants”

Here is Tabby and Ivy’s new room. Colors chosen were pastel blue, yellow, and pink. All the furniture we already had but was painted new colors. The bunk beds were the largest piece to paint. I also need to remind myself for future that this used to be Mark and my room so all of our furniture and clothing had to be moved before Tabby could get started. Tabby did the entire room from start to finish.

Desk area. My favorite part of the room.

reading corner. notice the lights, fake greens, flowers and paper cranes hung across the ceiling. It looks much cooler in person than in photos.

Having every person in our family of 6 switch bedrooms (except Ellie) was a huge undertaking, but I’m really glad we did it. I will show you Mark and my room in a future post.