Our new playroom

It’s been about five months since we’ve moved into our new place. Our old new place, that is. The front of the house is at least one hundred years old!

We have been itching to start up a playroom for the kids, but it’s had to wait until now. What with my fiance’s health setbacks, and major flooding of our playroom in the early months, we had to take care of those issues first. The cause of the flooding has been fixed, so it’s safe to put the childrens’ toys in there without worry of them getting water damage. The carpet is still stained from the flooding, but we intend to get that tiled one day. Ah, patience!

In the meantime, the poor old play area became somewhat of a dumping ground for crap. You know what it’s like; you have an unused room in a house, and things get piled up there, until you deal with it ‘someday’.

‘Someday’ came two days ago.

We have the oh-so-classy use the old lounge as a gate trick going on, nice…

A place for some of the toys and books of this house. This is an old bookcase I inherited from my grandmother, soon I’ll be thrifting it to look more inviting. The kids’ rooms and the lounge room are looking a lot less cluttered as a result! The window above is the kitchen window, meaning whoever is in there can still see the kids as they play.

Because my son is still overexcited about having new animals in the house, we can separate him from the pets when it all gets a bit out of hand. They can still enjoy each others’ hijinks, as you can see!

They can look closely at the rain, and hear it pounding the roof as they play inside, snug and warm.

Because I’m phasing BPA-laden tupperware out of the kitchen, the kids have inherited this platter to sort Grandma’s old buttons into different sections. Mr Three decided to sort sections into colours. He told me he was ‘solving the mystery’.

I also moved his favourite alphabet puzzle into the playroom. It’ll be easier to keep the pieces together in here, away from his bedroom. Speaking of which, five pieces were missing.

Mr Three was quite anxious to get them back. Considering his love for solving problems, I gave him another ‘mystery’ to solve.

I made a list of the pieces that were missing. He took the list around the house and found a piece. Then he wanted help, so we went around the house together, trying to solve the mystery. I helped him to tip big boxes of toys out, and each time we found a piece, I asked him if that letter was on his list. ‘Yes!’ he said, three times. We are still missing two more pieces, so we’re keeping the list so we can go around and do this a few more times. He loved it, and can’t wait to find the last pieces.

Soon, I’m going to start painting! This is the first house we’ve ever owned, and I can’t believe we’ve not painted anything yet. I think we need to lose the ‘renter’ mentality we’ve become accustomed to, and let ourselves enjoy being home owners even more.

I’m excited too, because if this weather clears, on Monday, we’re getting a load of fruit trees planted! Pictures to come…