Making Room

Four years ago, Adam made this beautiful bed for Isaiah.

Three years ago, we realized that the boys preferred sharing a room together, so we took down Caleb's crib and stored it in the closet. Then we moved Isaiah's bed into Caleb's old room to make space for the bunk bed that was going to be placed in the room that they would share.

I loved this set-up.

I loved the idea of having a room, with a nice bed, where guests could stay when visiting our home. But most of all, I loved having a off-the-ground surface where I could throw my clean laundry then close the door and pretend like it never really existed. There was only one flaw with this system...it was nearly impossible to find the other match to a sock in a pile of laundry that was eight loads high.

I knew I couldn't continue to live this way forever, and believe me, it has nothing to do with the laundry. You see, this room is in the process of becoming 'L's" room. And because she still sleeps in a crib, we have found ourselves doing the bedroom shuffle again. Only this time, in order to bring the crib back out of the closet, we had to take the bed (aka laundry collector) out of the room.

Here was our dilemma: Where do you store a bed this size when your house is small?

The answer: You don't.

It took us awhile to come to grips with this. I mean, this is a one of a kind bed, it has serious sentimental value. It's hard to think that after Adam spent numerous hours carefully measuring, carving and cutting, that in the end, it became just another item for sale on craigslist.

We watched as the bed was loaded into the back of a truck, cinched down and driven away. Then Adam and I looked at each other and smiled as though we both had the same thought:



Yeah, this trade off is totally worth it.