It was finally time to stack the bunk beds that the boys have been sleeping in. Caleb is old enough and they were both very excited about doing it. To date they have been sleeping in two separate beds, with the option of being stacked as bunk beds.
After stacking them and doing the mandatory vacuuming that comes with rearranging it was time to put some decorations on the wall. This is my favorite part!! Jeremiah's desk is in the corner so I put up his things there. He has a picture of the temple, his letter "J" from Grandma, a faith rock sitting on his desk, and a few framed things that he colored. Above Caleb's dresser are his letter "C", also from Grandma, and some painted wood things: car, train, airplane. He was involved in the process of putting them up so they are not perfectly spaced and arranged as I would have liked them to be.
As I stood back to admire their room and its decorations, Caleb was playing on the floor with a toy. I liked the way everything looked! I was proud of myself for actually "getting around to decorating".
I turned to leave the room but then took another look, and couldn't help but notice Caleb- now very involved in his toy. No matter how cute his room and its decor is; watching him and his brothers play will always be my favorite part of it! So how important is decorating? How important is it to have a home that is constantly clean? Perhaps I cannot pin down a perfectly quantified answer to those questions, but I can say that before we decorate, before we spend tons of money on the perfectly placed eye-catching ornaments for the cutest shelf from the latest store; we should make sure all is well with our children. We should be spending time with them in those rooms that we love to decorate so much- before they are grown and all we have left are the decorations, and the time for our children to fill those rooms has passed.
