Yay for Big One!

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Last week we had a session of re-organising Big One’s bedroom. Big One has a decent-sized bedroom, so she had lots of her books and toys stored there. Little one has a tiny room so there’s only just room for her bed and a chest of drawers for clothes. She hasn’t complained yet, but the problem was that Big One had lots of toys she didn’t really play with any more taking up space in her room, and Little One couldn’t play with them either because Big One didn’t like her going into her room and playing with ‘her’ stuff. So we decided we may as well sacrifice our front room and use it mainly as a playroom – after all we don’t often have visitors anyway, it’s the girls who have the social life these days. The girls both agreed to the plan and we spent half a day deconstructing and reassembling a big shelving unit and carting storage boxes, toys and games downstairs. After all that Big One was still left with a few piles of books on her bedroom floor, so obviously some more bookshelves were needed. I looked in various places online and trawled the local charity shops in the hope of finding a decent set of shelves, but couldn’t find what we needed, so in the end I went to Homebase and bought a flat-pack wood-effect bookcase. When Big One got home from school I presented her with the box and handed over a screwdriver and hammer. At first she looked a bit nonplussed but once she’d opened it up, looked through the instructions and worked out which bits were which she was enthusiastic and spent a happy hour or so putting it all together. So not only does she have some new shelves but some useful experience too – after all if she’s stuck for money in a few years, she can always assemble other people’s flat-pack furniture! (I wouldn’t have believed people genuinely earned a living doing this except I know someone who hired a man to assemble furniture for them). All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2016.