Austin's Big Ideas!

Saturday Austin woke with great ambition...he decided that was the day he wanted to rearrange his room! So we sat down in his room together and brainstormed on ways to go about this. There isn't a whole lot of room for creativity since he has a full size futon/bunk bed and not a huge room to begin with. I must say his ideas were anything but great but being the mother that I am I didn't want to crush what he thought sounded like brilliant ideas so I said, "sure, why not", hoping that once it was completed he would see the ridiculousness of it and want to put it back. I thought to myself, "what a great opportunity for me to get him to deep clean his room". So I broke the news to him that if he really wanted to rearrange his room it first needed to be deep cleaned and reorganized since it looked like a tornado destroyed it. I gave him a tub for things he no longer wanted and sent him on his way. To my surprise, about an hour later he came downstairs to tell me he was done...After putting Kezzie down for a nap I proceeded to humor him by moving some furniture around. His idea was to put his bed smack in the middle of the room so that with the futon down flat you would have to crawl through it to get to either side of his room. I thought, "we'll just do this and leave it for a while and then he will get tired of it and we'll move it all back, no biggie". So, long story short...after many modifications to his original thought, he thankfully hated it and after Kezzie's full nap (2 hours) and then some, we finally had an arrangement we were both pleased with! The bed is now on the opposite side of the room and his dresser, bookcase, and computer desk are all in a logical place on the other side of his room. And I think we both like it this way better than before. It was so much fun hanging out with Austin for that long and working together on something without interruptions!Now, the past couple days I have been doing a little deep cleaning myself while he is at school. I think I was able to eliminate half his wardrobe that doesn't fit anymore and many children's books that he has outgrown...I am thankful for our extra garage that is so nice for storing these kinds of things!