Making Space
We’re lucky enough to have a whole room for office space in this house and, believe me, we’ve filled it and it’s a busy room. It’s actually a bedroom, so it’s a nice size and has a closet for stashing all the stuff we don’t really want out for public viewing. Until this weekend, though, that room was just for Matt and I. Ava really had nothing in there to occupy her and, for the most part, we spent every second we were all in there together telling her to stop touching stuff – not really fun or productive for anyone.
Last weekend, in a stroke of what I’ll just admit was pure genius (ha!), I decided that it was time that Ava had her own workstation in the office. She needed a place to color or stamp, where she could reach some of her own art materials – in other words, something to do so that we could get stuff done too. We have a beautiful secretary desk that was sitting upstairs in the hallway serving no function except to look pretty, so it became my desk – plenty big enough for the laptop and full of little cubbies & drawers to stash my stuff. My old pine table became Ava’s workstation and she now has access to markers, crayons and coloring pages whenever she wants them. All in all, it’s working out great!
I love that we’ve made space for our girl in a room that used to be so off limits. And now, rather than nagging her to leave stuff alone, I get to look over from my desk and see something that’s a lot more happy.
