Tates New Room!!

WARNING!!

THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED FOR READERS UNDER

SAAAYY.. 10? 11?  

If you are lucky..12.

No.  Not 12. 

 Just 10, 11 or under.

DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU ARE UNDER 10.  or maybe 11.

I'm serious.

Anyways, 

Tatum got a new room from Santa for Christmas this year.

We were vveerry happy about this because Tatum's bedroom furniture is WAY to big for her little room.

So Santy set her up with a new smaller daybed..

With a trundle..

making it a king bed..

For those nights when Tatum is sure she is going to explode from not having

ANY ROOM AT ALLLL!!

(too bad trundles do not help spaces like, the back seat of a car & shared motel beds)

Sheesh.

Anyways.

Tatum was SO surprised!  And totally thrilled with her new room!

One of her first statements

"Oh my gosh mom!  Are you not so glad that Santa did this!  To save you all of the time and money!"

(see "brief stop in hell" on prior Christmas post)

But the thing with a 4th grader that is learning long division...

When 1+1 does not equal 2

Problems arise

Questions are asked

Minds are puzzled

and people are appropriately frazzeled!

AND SOMETIMES THEY BREAK!

And sometimes when that happens

the truth must set you free.

And sometimes the truth makes you cry for 2 or 3 hours.

Or again right now as you are typing this post.

It also ALMOST buys you a day off of school 

Ya know

Due to emotional distress and all.

But..

 So..

 with the help of this 

EXPLICIT link

 that IS NOT TO BE CLICKED ON BY THE 10 AND UNDER CROWD!

we had an unforgettable experience.

Slightly tramatic.

But unforgettable all the same.

"Life is not about learning to weather the storm

but instead learning to dance in the rain"

A quote which I love.. And try to remember in sooo many avenues of parenting.

And besides.  Tatum hates being late to any party

And she was SSUUPPPER late to this one.

Which really ticks her off.

..Is any one with me here?

Probably not..

If not.

pay me no mind..

And just enjoy the before, and after pictures of Tatum's new bedroom.

The Befores 

(as an afterthought)

courtesy of Mir.

Which is to say thanks!  Because I had a no thought to take pictures!

So thanks Mir!

And..

The Afters!

There are a few additions.

We have a darling cord cover for the ball light.

(also.. the ball light does not have a switch, and the outlet is behind the bed 

so we have this groovey little dohickey that has an adapter, that plugs into the outlet and then you plug it (the cord) into it (the adapter)

and then.

You have a remote that works it all.

Oh man.

I am really screwing this post huh?

But so what I am saying is.. 

If you are scared to come home to a dark house you can have a remote that turns on some lamps for you from outside of your house (with the remote!)  for the bargain price of 20!

Tates fish tank with new matchy matchy rocks sits on the table above. 

 All 5 of Tate's American Girl dolls are dressed in their original outfits, shoes,

and unders (don't look to close at Julie there.  She was having herself a wild Hawaiian vacay!)
and sitting on the shelves.

 The polka dots that you can see on the bottom right hand corner are now applied to the wall..

And..

Tatum has Tate A fied it.

Shoved as many notebooks, doo dads, and reading books into every nook and cranny she can find.

 She is really loving it, 

keeping it much cleaner, 

and mostly being able to enjoy extra down time in there.

All in all.. 

I'm glad we  he did it.

We learned a lot from this experience..

Boy did we!!!!

We don't necessarily need to put down in writing though.

We are approaching birthday season in our house, 

and the last thing I need is for my ulcer to start acting up!

(i don't have an ulcer)

But so.

If you ever see me in person.  Be sure to ask for the full story.

It is a doozy.