Jumpin-Beans

We live in an apartment. As you know, we want to get a house one day... But houses are crazy here... (Or maybe everywhere, I just do not know) Anyways, when looking at houses... We try and picture furniture in there, right? Obviously, we have our room... Then, we need room for the boys... Maybe a spare room? Well, with the houses that we have seen... WHOA, the rooms are so small! I mean, with some of the rooms, you barely had enough room for a children's bed! That leads me to this... How is your layout for your kids room? I want to get bunk beds for the boys, I figure that would be the easiest way to give MORE room with less space. I found one that I thought was pretty neat: It is a bunk bed, but you can take them apart and it is 2 twin beds! We actually had this type of beds in my dorm room! I walked in and my roommate had them bunked ready to go, I wanted the bottom. We did that for a bit, then ended up going to the two by themselves. I think we ended up going back to bunks... B...

I never really gave much thought to coffee tables before, but things changed (as does almost everything) once I became a mom. In my first apartment, I had the funky shaped coffee tables with glass tops. I was an art student, so we painted it art deco and had a blast doing so! It was so cool, as it was our painting and you could look and see it all through the glass tops. Then, I outgrew the art deco phase and wanted more "normal" furniture. I eventually decided that a coffee table took up too much room in my small living room, so I got rid of it completely. When Marc and I got engaged, my parents gave us a beautiful living room set. We had the whole coffee table and end tables set up and it was awesome! After that, Broxton came along and I realized that my mom had the most amazing coffee table for a little one learning to crawl. It was a great heavy wooden one with drawers and the best part? The corners were rounded out! No worrying about him falling into a sharp corner!!...

My grandmother had this beautiful corner TV stand in her living room. It was there for as long as I could remember... When she moved into her apartment, she did not take it with her. I asked my mom if I might be able to get that from her, as it was something that I would always remember her by. Then, we got to thinking about it. It was for the corner, I have our TV on the main wall and I would hate to think that I got this from her and would never have anywhere to put it. So, I ended up not worrying about it and she sold it in an Estate Sale. After that, I found out that she had it custom built all those years ago. Granted, I would have loved to have had it, but as I said... We have our TV on the main wall... Top it all off, Marc REALLY wants to get a flat screen TV and I know that means mounting it on the wall, so a corner TV stand would really be useless then! We have this basic TV stand that I bought umpteen years ago... Hey, I even put it together myself, pretty proud accomplishm...

One thing I wish I would have thought more about when deciding on Broxton ’s room was what would eventually happen with the furniture when he grew up! I have always said that I wanted to have two children… So, I knew I would need items that would stand the “test of time.” Well, not only that… But I did not want to buy something that was going to fall apart! I had several friends tell me, “You do not need to spend money on a changing table.” I knew that I wanted one… My brother had one, all the other babies I knew had one… Where else was I going to change his diaper and get him dressed? Put the lotion on him after his bath? I know some people use their dresser top for that, but Broxton did not have that kind of dresser. He had the dresser that my Nana gave to me… It was the tall one, that had the top that opened UP.. Not a place to change a baby. But, what would I use it for after that time period? We did think ahead when we were looking at baby cribs though. I knew that the...