Sun Room

I've mentioned before we are blessed to have a big house.  I keep reading about how American homes have grown in the last 30 years, and of course they have.  Our house is 3500 square feet PLUS a huge basement.

Of course, we actually have plenty of people roaming around, too!  Few families have 11 members.  Still, I am incredibly thankful we have plenty of space to sleep in and play in and work in.

Our sun room is a tiled area off our family room.  It typically goes from semi clean to very messy to semi clean to VERY messy.  I recently cleaned it and rearranged items, and thought it would be fun to post the very quick changes that happen in our sun room.

     This is a "before" picture, obviously. The cardboard "box house" was a huge hit for at least a week.  The kids loved it and played in it constantly. (Thank you, Lana, for the idea from your blog!)  Then they got tired of it, and it just sat there taking up space. So I thought about taking it down, but our eldest son said he still likes to lie in it reading, so we'll keep it for now.

The other end of the sun room. Papers all over the floor.  The table is an "art table" and somehow a lot of stuff ends up on the floor.

I tidied up. I moved the art table to the other end of the room, and...

  the box house and rocking horse into corners and against the other wall.

But as usual, the order did not last for long.  The kids asked for the Lincoln logs to come down, so I put them down.

AND, the chairs. What is with the chairs?  Well, the answer should be obvious to all fans of Miss Rose.  She climbs on them.  And then onto the table. And then stands, precariously, on TOP of the swaying table. So when she is in the sun room, and her siblings aren't occupying the seats,I put them on the floor. Problem solved, but it looks silly.