The Wellyboots Tribe Step Forth - again!!

Mood: Tired and achey!!
Listening to: The sound of silent children sleeping :)

I laid in bed last night and pondered for far too long about HOW we are ever going to make room for an extra baby in this house.  As things stood there would be no room for a crib in any room of the house, so being that I am 37wks this Friday I was beginning to feel a little stressed by this. After a lengthy discussion with Paul about my dilema, and the fact that I really do not want to buy any MORE storage (besides the fact there is simply no more room for any) that we might not really need, or have even less room for should we decide to move house in the near future - which high up on the list of 'we want to do's' -we decided to make some major re-arrangements. These plans mainly consisted of moving a large side-board out of our room into the girls & moving a mass of shelving out of the girls room in to the hallway into the space occupied by a smaller sideboard, which was to re-locate to the back bathroom for now until it is replaced by a more upright cupboard (possibly). In the event - we ended up moving the small sideboard and the shelving as planned, then moving the TRIPLE bunkbeds to the other side of the room and the Cot-bed to where the bunks were - shuffling lots of other cupboards and toys, but not really winning with that because the large sideboard never quite made it out of our room today - that's tomorrow's plan! Having made a space for the sideboard though and split the mass of shelving (it's IVAR so it's flexible - thankfully) at the end of the day I realised that I actually could have just taken a section off the shelving and changed it to the other side of the room intead of relocating it entirely  - I think Paul felt like doing this :-   Anyway - I promised him that now they are in the hall they can stay there (although it does look a bit 'imposing' as you walk in the door) but actually it does have it's plusses. It means that the kids computer is in the hallway and therefore more accessible even when small babies are sleeping in the girls room AND I can watch what the user is learning/doing with more ease. Also I am going to keep a 'spare' desk as a punishment desk! That sounds horrid I know, but at times it is required to seperate these boys in order that either of them do any work at all, so whoever I deem fit will be sent to that desk which will be a really 'boring' space - facing a blank wall (minimal distractions therefore) and right where I can see their every move from almost any point in the house!! The boys looked sufficiently gloomy at the prospect when I told them tonight (it has been a nightmare day schoolwise with them - the simply cannot seem to work, together or apart, with any degree of independence at all without larking around to a ridiculous degree!), but whether the idea will actually be much of a deterent to poor behaviour, we'll have to wait and see!

So - back to Pickfords@Wellyboots! (that is NOT a link btw) - once we move the sideboard through tomorrow I then have the majorly nighmarish job of re-organizing all the contents of the cupboards and shelves so that everything is where it needs to be for it's specified purpose!!

Abbie asked what all this moving things was for today and I told her that we need to make room for the baby's bed in Mummy & Daddy's room because he/she would be here soon. Later on she asked "When is the baby coming Mummy?" - I told her I had no idea, but it wouldn't too long now. A few minutes later, after sitting on her newly positioned bed contemplating my answer, sucking her thumb and cuddling her 'snowy',  she piped up; "My God says the baby will come tomorrow!" She sounded so convinced and I think that often children are so much more in touch with their maker than we know how to be, so we'll have to see, but I must say that would be just God's sense of humour! We've had everything set up and waiiting for the last 5 babies at about 36wks - it was another 7 before Ellie was born! This time I am SO not ready - no space, no clothes sorted (they are in the back of the garage somewhere, behind a mountain of other boxes awaiting our 'need to redo' yard sale!), the house an absoulute pigsty (for want of a better phrase) and wouldn't it be typical that this would be my first baby to arrive early!! That said I could not say I would be sorry at all - it would just have to sleep in our bed for a bit - which it no doubt will anyway -and I would have to just give directions at Paul as to where 'stuff' needs to be re-homed. Thank goodness he has finished his course!!  The vote stands at boy-late at the moment - I hope you are all wrong about the late bit, but I defintaly suspect you'll be right on the gender  - this is the first time Paul and I have agreed on that  - but as usual only have a girls name for certain!

Hitting the sack now - I shall try to write something more schooly in the next couple of days.