Moving Day!

Finally, we did it!  Moving day was a week today, so all packed up and ready to go - full of excitement and ideas:  One morning, a few days before moving, the entire family were all sat on our bed with paint samples discussing what colours our children will choose for their bedrooms.  A week later and we have already visited Homebase, and the kids have their colours and are now just waiting for Mummy and Daddy to hurry up and get painting!  Last time we moved house, our eldest was 2, so we didn't have the same situation where now everyone has their own opinion!  Felix at that stage was happy with blue and so it was - the boy's bedroom was painted a light blue colour.  Now on the other hand, they are growing up and have their own rooms for the first time and so more diplomacy was required on our part.

In theory, both Chris and I agreed that the children can choose their own colours.  The only veto was that Felix could not have BLACK - as was his first suggestion!  So we went through all sorts of elaborate plans of different walls being painted different colours and different combinations, but when we got to the shop, Chris found it harder than expected to accept his children's choices.  Not that they had chosen anything outrageous but simply that they do not have the design experience that adults have and were perhaps not choosing the best options for their room.  For example, Felix has a small attic room and wanted a blue/ purple colour called Lupin which was lovely but would end up making the room feel very closed in.  Yasmin wanted pink and purple and so far we have just bought pink, but she is not letting up!  So this is a learning process for us parent's too - letting go and allowing our children to make their own decisions and learn from their own mistakes.  Leo was "conned" dare I say into choosing a painted wooden curtain pole rather than the brash metal pole that first took his fancy as Chris persuaded him that it was an elven stick!  So Felix has come round to a paler blue and cream, Leo is happy with his green and Yasmin is still campaigning for her purple - I am sure it will all turn out ok in the end.  And this is only the beginning of our design adventure!

I promise some photos of our house next week - still struggling to get broad band set up! - Oh, the joys of moving!!!