doing the shuffle

We have finally given in to Ryan's request to have his own room. He'll be moving into the junk/sewing/scrapbook/junk room. He is sooo excited! I was a bit sad because I'm losing "my" space. I told him there was no way I was going to move my scrapbook cabinet and he'd just have to live with it being in his room and be prepared to give me access to it at any time -- he was totally fine with that because he's just so excited to have his own room! Ryan and Jacob will now have to take responsibility for their own messes and clean up of their rooms -- no more blaming each other for messiness! They are both going to enjoy having some play space. Late Saturday afternoon we started going through the room to rearrange and clear stuff out. We loaded the van with treasures to go to DI and sadly, my skis were part of that load -- I've used them once in 15 years and they are way out of date and possibly not very safe anymore. We also threw some stuff away that we decided we just didn't need to store anymore. I'm not finished yet figuring out places to put everything that we do need to hang onto, but I'm very close and I'm pleased with what we've been able to get rid of and rearrange. We promised Ryan he could move in this weekend and I'm quite sure we'll be ready.