Making Room

Our home is almost ready for the children we will be fostering.  We have a new bed set up in the girl's room and in the boy's room, including sheets and pillows.   We have one more dresser to purchase and I've just finished re-staining an old dresser for the boys.  Both Micah and Kaylee have been so excited to have a fresh empty bed in their room that they've each abandoned their bunk-bed in exchange for the "new one" until the foster children arrive.

It's amazing that we are making it all fit.  Some might say we are crazy to expand our family in this size of apartment but I honestly think it's the culture we live in.  Who says our kids all need their own rooms?!   Compared to other places and time periods of the world, no one would have batted an eyelash at our living space... In fact, they probably would see it as quite large.   It's taken a bit of *strategy*(Put it in a trash-bag and haul it out to the big can before they ever get a chance to see anything.) ;) for the children to throw away some things but it actually doesn't look too crowded, it just looks "cozy".

Well... We're almost ready...  and we'll have our license in a couple of weeks!
This mama is feelin' good.
-Alicia :)