Guest Room!

Ever since we moved into the house five years ago, we've constantly had various and sundry rooms under construction. And when you have a room under construction you have to move all of the furniture out of that room and into another. So then you have two rooms that are messy - one with plaster and dust and the other with excess furniture and other stuff. Thus, you are effectively down two rooms. But this weekend we moved furniture back into our guest room. You would really have to live at our house to understand how big that is.

The other important thing about having a guest room is that the other room we got back is the one that we are going to set up as an office. Having an office means that we will have a spot where we can set up our PC. Since we started construction, the PC has been relegated to a corner in the storage room. We've still had internet access, but on laptops placed downstairs on low tables well within baby's reach. Having the PCs upstairs means that we can check email and respond more quickly to an awakening child. It means that when my wife is home working, she can be somewhere else and still available. It means that I can work on my miniatures while sitting in a chair instead of on the floor and not have to lock everything away when I'm done with it. I keep envisioning it as almost a kid-free oasis. It won't always be so, but for now it just might be.

Just as soon as we finish fixing it back up.