Distraction...

This weekend I found a great distraction to keep my thoughts off of adoption delays!

We have been wanting to convert our formal dining room to a sort of study/play area for 2 reasons. One, the boys will be sharing a vey small bedroom and there isnt room for both toys and dressers and Two, I dont really want Sammy playing either upstairs alone or in the basement alone...we have no idea if he can do stairs ect and he isnt going to know the "rules" yet around here. Besides...we dont ever use our dining room except 2x a year and as a catch all...

SO....we took the table apart to store in the basement and I went looking for paint samples....and found 2 large bookcases on clearance at Lowes for over 50% off!!! Yippee...less than I would have spent on used ones on craigs list! (I did find paint as well btw) Then in a conversation with my friend and coworker I happened to mention that I wanted to get a small loveseat or chair and half for "story snuggle time" to put in the corner of that room...I had been searching freecycle and craigslist to no avail..and get this...SHE HAS ONE!!! I can have it ...FOR FREE!! What a HUGE blessing that is! (ok, not totally free...I owe her a cup of coffee :-)

I am so excited...I spent Friday night and saturday painting and then assembled both book cases on saturday! We will be picking up the chair this week and we will be set! All that is left to do is to bring the toys down and tie up the chandelier (sp) and it will be a multifunctional room that we will actually USE!

I will post pictures of it when it is all done but I am bummed I didn't get a "before" picture! It was plain with white and light brown walls. Thats it...no artwork or anything yet since we never use it. I am thrilled with how it is coming together!

One special little twist I did was we used magnetic paint on the bottom half of 2 walls so Sammy can use his letter magnets (once I can find the big ones) on the walls...cool huh? Then you just paint over it so it looks like the rest of the wall!

I really needed a distraction to keep my mind off adoption things for a while and to refocus myself. I really think I needed this time to stay away from my computer and stop obsessing. We will bring Sammy home. Thats it...it may not be this month or next or even this summer but he will come home and it wont matter at all how long it took once we have him home!

Blessings
Amy