My children read ALL the time and I love it! This is how they can be found every night. I'll get Hadlee ready for bed then let her loose and she'll go to Maddox's bed, climb up, and start reading while I get Maddox ready. Then Maddox will have me read to her then read to herself for a while with just the hallway light on. They do this at night and throughout the day. Actually, that's where they are now. Both on Maddox's bed reading book after book.
I caught Hadlee up there one day by herself surrounded by books. I love that my kids love books so much!
Caught ya!
We got our bedroom decorated so I'll take pictures of it now to share. I really wish I had taken before pictures now just so you could see how drastically different and better it is! I'll just describe before... The walls were the painters white with light tan sponge painted over it on all four walls. It had an ivy wall paper border along the ceiling. The curtains were a sea foam green scrunchy silk with white tassles along all the edges. And they hung a piece of ivy along the top of the curtains and hanging off both sides. It was straight out of the 90s. Jeremy said he always threw up a little bit every time he entered the room. So he was very motivated to take down the border and curtains, leaving me with a clean slate. The weekend Mom was here she helped me pick out bedding and she cut my silk curtains from one panel into two to hang up in our room. The next weekend we painted the walls a nice grey color. We wanted to do wide polyeurethane stripes over that but the walls are orange peel texture so it wouldn't work. Rather than deal with extra steps and frustration we gave up. A few weeks later we found these gorgeous crystal lamps with silk grey shades at Gordman's so they were 50% off. Then we spent some time trying to find that pop of color for the wall that matched the bedding. We had been looking at Gordman's, therefore cheap, bought something then went to the mall and found this painting at Deck the Walls. It was perfect! We returned the Gordman's painting and got this one, not so cheap. But it absolutely perfect in there and just the color a grey room needed. Is it grey or gray? I can't figure that one out.
Now we love our peaceful tranquil grown up room. Oh, we do still need a headboard. If you recall Jessi freaked out one day when locked in the bedroom and ripped apart our wicker one. So for now it's got a Mom-made slip-cover over it that matches the curtains and white in the duvet (made out of an old sheet!). Not wonderful, but it does the job until we're ready to go shopping again.
