The Happy Little Guest Room

Ahhh, an evening walk with my friend, Leslie...dinner made by my hubby and a nice hot bath  was the perfect ending to a Monday!

I haven't posted any pictures of our home in quite some time, so tonight is the night!

It had been decided years ago that once the children moved out, one of their rooms would become my craft room/office.  I had picked out a new paint color, the ceiling was going to be painted white and I even had the floor plan sketched out with a large work station on the opposite side of the BIG desk figured in.

Once Laurissa moved out...it became the storage room a.k.a "the wedding room"...but after the wedding, all of the crafts, papers, paper cutters, punches, desk and everything else was moved into the room.

It was not all it was cracked up to be.

Yes there was room.  Yes, it was nice to have a craft space with projects being left out...and being able to just close the door...but it was lonely in there for me.  It just did not feel right.  I was used to kissing my girlie goodnight, and checking in on her in the middle of the night, or crawling into bed with her and snuggling her when she was sick.  There were nights when her best friends would all be in there like little sardines.  Happy sardines.  Girls who had stayed up entirely too late and who could not be moved before noon the next day.
And there were always the mornings where we would find that Caleb had taken his sleeping bag in because he wanted to make sure his sissy was "safe"!!!

It was not meant to be an office.

Needless to say, my very sweet,sweet hubby moved everything back out of the room and it is now our HAPPY little guest room.  {I KNOW I have used little and happy entirely too much!}

The desk is back out in the family room...along with the mess of unfinished projects, but it has been so nice having a bed back in Laurissa's old room...and there are days that I will go lay down on the bed and daydream of all the fun memories that room will hold in the future.  I think it will be a fun room for grandbabies to take itty bitty "cat naps" in or a nice big bed to plop down on along with piles of books, blankies, stuffed animals and a tray of warm toast and ice cold milk!  And I will have stories to tell them about when there mommy was their age and all the special memories we had in the very.same.room.

I love this print.  It was my birthday gift from my BFF on the day David proposed to Laurissa .
It was a day filled with JOY, indeed!

These were signs that marked the lawn between the wedding ceremony and the reception.
They were too special to toss!

My hubby picked this out for Laurissa several years ago.  He installed a dimmer on it as she is not a fan of bright lights!
It comes in handy for the little nieces who need a  bit of light to go to sleep with...and I can check on them without waking them up!  Shoulda had this about 20 years ago!

I'm wondering why Miss Lauriss did not take her loud alarm clock???

Here it is...all ready for our next overnight guest, an afternoon of daydreaming,  giggly little nieces
or our girlie who still LOVES coming home as she waits for her hubby to come
HOME from being deployed.

...and what would a room be without ONE.BIG.UNFINISHED.PROJECT?
I can't wait to show it to you once it is complete!!


Happy Monday!

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