Note about Abby's room:

Abby’s room has been a storage room for the last 5.5 years. Okay a junk drawer. Just last spring we rearranged it so we could fit a twin bed & some cute girl furniture in it. It’s never been her room, per se, but an oversized closet that she sleeps in. Not ideal, but hers. Partially. Before Thanksgiving I was looking for something in the closet that is still full of my stuff—mostly crafts & infrequently used items—and was pulling out photo boxes, projects, etc and putting them on the bed. Curious Cora got to them a few days later. Photo boxes of ordered, unlabeled pictures + Toddler – Lids + Floor = Ugh. It started there and has become my “I’m taking care of it later, so this can go here, too” spot. Ugh ugh. So it’s now the new year & Ab’s been sleeping on the boys’ floor since before Thanksgiving. The new plan is to do a major overhaul, move Cora in there so Abby’s not alone (she hates that) and make it a girl room. The storage stuff will move to my room. (One friend emphatically insisted that I not turn my bedroom into a storage room, which makes sense. Another quietly pointed out that boxes won’t wake me up in the middle of the night. Hello food storage!)