The Great Room Maneuver: Part Two

The plan to move the Lone Star Girl into the green room with her precious comic book boxes had actually been at least a year in the making. When, however, we actually settled down to doing it this summer, the Lone Star Girl got cold feet about leaving her childhood room. While I felt sympathy for her attachment to the room, outwardly I brooked no resistance. The facts were that the green room was a good bit larger than her pink and yellow room and that, even in the green room, the comic book boxes would make it hard to fit all of her things. There was no way that they would fit in the smaller room and leave space for the room to ever be clean, and the Lone Star Girl's allergies require that we start insisting on a clean room for her (more on that later). Also, the Lone Star Baby is deep into her pink and fluffy little princess four-year-old girl phase and, while we all hope that the phase doesn't last long, she really deserves her turn with the pretty pink and yellow room, which she wanted badly.

So. We cleared everything out of the green room except for the comic book boxes and moved the Lone Star Girl in this past week, before and after the hurricane. Now it is no longer the green room; it is her room. Although the room is and always will still be crowded with those boxes, it is actually a pretty groovy room for an adolescent girl and definitely looks more her than her old room did.

Of course, the rest of the stuff that used to clutter up the green room is now piled all over the house in a major way, increasing the generally insane look of the rest of our surroundings, but the Lone Star Girl's room is very cool.

To Be Continued...