Try Not To Lose Any Sleep Over This
Andrea is making a nursery for her new baby. My baby gets nothing.
My first two babies got decorated nurseries but my last one slept in a portable crib in whichever room was available because we were moving any minute (nine months later) so this baby had better not think it's getting anything better. Nope. It will be lucky to sleep in the bathroom that we never use because it's full of junk at the moment. It's always full of junk. Except for the day after I clean it out and then it gets filled up again.
I designed this house kind of small on purpose so that we definitely wouldn't be able to have any more kids. Wasn't that smart of me? It's not terribly small but the kid's bedrooms are an average 10X12. My two girls are in one of them with twin beds. I could make a bunkbed out of the beds and stuff a crib in there if we have another girl but I'm worried about having a three year old and a newborn in the same room, waking each other up. Besides, three kids in one room and one in the other?
But what if it's a boy? Do I put a baby in a room with my ten year old son? I don't see how two boys, ten years apart, can share a room. The only other option is the playroom which is right by both the front and the back doors that the kids are slamming all day long and it's tiny. It isn't really even a bedroom because it doesn't have a closet. Don't ask me why. I ran out of space when I was designing the house so I just didn't put one in it. There would be room for a crib and a dresser in there but I am not giving up the playroom at this point of my children's lives. Lovely plays in there all the time and there isn't room for the mess in her bedroom.
So there you have it. This baby is going to be homeless. Or else stuck in the bathroom. Don't feel too sorry for it because we will try to love it anyway.
By the way, I hope Andrea doesn't mind my linking to her junkroom/nursery. It was much easier and less embarassing than posting photos of my own junk room/bathroom/nursery!
Labels: Baby Notes
posted by The Lazy Organizer @ 9:51 PM
13 Comments
13 Comments:
You'll all be just fine! I've got three girls in one small room (bunk bed and crib, 6, 4, and 18 months) and two boys in the other. The boys were *hoping* the 18 month old would be a boy so they could cram him in with them (their room is actually the bigger one). The only time they complain is when another friend comes over, talking about how they are cleaning out their basement so they can eventually make him his own bedroom. Like today...
When I think about how to put kids in rooms and that kind of thing, I just think about how we'd be living if it were 100 years ago or so. Everyone shared one room! That would be so hard.
My DH used to want to just put up a bunch of hammocks in the basement and let the kids live there!!
My third baby didn't get a special nursery like the older two did either. She got the walk-in closet in our bedroom! The two girls were going to share a bedroom but it didn't work so well since the baby slept all the time and then big sister couldn't play with her toys. So, we set up the playpen in our closet and it worked perfectly. It was the quietest spot in the house and was always dark. She actually slept in there until she learned how to crawl out of her playpen. :)
My kids are all approximately two years apart and the order is boy-girl-girl-boy-???. After #2 was born she shared a room with #1. After #3 was born she shared with #2 and still does and #1 got a room of his own. #4 spent the first 12 months of his life in a portacrib in the master bedroom with a dresser for his clothes and two storage baskets under the crib for linens, etc. Now the rooms are divided up with #1 and #4 sharing, and #2 and #3 sharing. We ARE in the process of building a new house, hopefully it will be finished in time to provide elbow room when the new baby gets here. Hubby seems to think that #1 needs a room of his own, but we'll see how long that lasts ;) On a side note, everyone seems to be hoping this baby is twins... not sure how we'll handle that, but the Lord always provides :)
My point is that you can put toddlers with babies and you can put tweens with babies. So don't sweat it, babies don't take up muuch space for the first year or so anyway ;)
Family togetherness is a beautiful thing. We've got the youngest (boy and girl) in together and so far it's only moderately insane in there. They wake each other up all the time and Gabie can never get into his own room when Nora is napping. I'm waiting to see how things go as they get older. We'll just have to move. Or convert the bathroom to Nora's space. I'm sure she'd love that.
I HEAR you! We had the same delima when Ethan (#4) was born. Abby is 6 now and with Sam (4) and Wyatt (3) already sharing a room it is a tight squeeze for the crib in there. Right now he's still in the bassinet in our room (not much longer though!) I too was thinking about the families 100 years ago. We love to read The Little House on the Prairie books. They even had to share one bed. I think if ma could see the way we live now she would faint! So Abby has been begging to let Ethan share a room with her. At first we were like no way. You can't let a girl and a boy share a room for heaven sakes. They might come and take your children away if you did that, right? It's just unheard of these days. But we fianally got on her level and talked to her. She really feels that it is unfair if we put Ethan in the boy's room cuz they will have two people to share with and she will not be able to share with anyone. So then I thought why am I telling her she cannot share? That is exactly opposite of what I want to teach her. So we caved and next week the crib goes in her room. So does blue go with pink?
Sara
p.s. what is a url? I am porting anonymous cuz I don't know what a url is. Do I have one of those. Now I'm embarassed cuz I really slow!
My "baby" is turning 2 on Sunday and he just got a real room last weekend! We've always shared a room and it did just fine. Of course, it is nice to be able to hang out in my room after 7pm now.
It is good that babies are small and don't care where they live, isn't it?!
My kids have smallish rooms too. My nearly 13 and 8 yo share one, and my 3 and 11 yo share the other. It works out marvelously. :) We only have dressers and bunk beds in their rooms. All the toys are in the basement.
If we have another we will stick one of the kids in the basement, I guess. I think they'd hate it, but they may love it. I know I was happy at age 11 to move into the basement just to get my own room. (It was 8x10!! But I was ecstatic to be in my own space, no matter how small) :)
(Btw. I hope you don't mind me posting this here, but I am having a bloggy giveaway myself! I would love it for anyone to come over and take a peek!)
Hey! I love your blog! I read it virtually everyday. I've never commented before, though.
I had two girls and a boy sharing a room for the first four years of my little boy's life. He even shared a double bed with one of his sisters. He refused to sleep in his own room (even refused his own bed), until the baby came and he FINALLY had company. It didn't matter that we had another girl. So now I have two girls, 10 & 8, sharing a room, and son, 5, with baby girl. He likes knowing there is someone else in there with him. I don't think gender matters much in room sharing until kids get to be around 8 or so and really start wanting and needing some privacy.
I think the baby can share with big brother until he's ready to kick her out!
Good luck, and congratulations on the new one coming!
Yep, this one will be homeless, too. What can you expect in a tiny two bedroom apartment?
nothing like letting the world see my junk.
You're hilarious.
The baby may have a room, but has yet to have a bed. Or really anything else for that matter.
20 more days to get something.
I guess that's one plus of having kids all close. No chance of a 10 yr old sharing with a baby. The alternative though is a crazy mom. haha.
Hey Lara,
The 10 year old and baby can share a room. We did it! Actually it works out better than the baby being in with the toddler because you don't want either one of them waking up the other one. But the 10 year old is old enough to get up and comfort the baby back to sleep if necessary. Since your 10 year old doesn't have to get up and "go" to school. He'll not be missing need rest before the early morning call for the bus.
It will work!! Good Luck!
I had to give up our playroom when #5 was born. We just couldn't fit, and then my baby boy shared a room with his sister. Just last year, when he was 3, he moved in and now shares with his brother who is 10 years older than him. His brother was not too happy about it, but thems the breaks until we get the basement finished.
Babies don't care where they sleep. They could just sleep in their car seats all day and wouldn't care.
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