As I have been blogging about my son joining the Air Force, I have been expressing my mother heart. That part of me feeling pained about the idea of him leaving and just the uncertainty of enlisting in the military.
However, there is another side of this that I almost feel guilty about. It’s the planning we have already been doing with the extra room we will have.
As the little birdies begin to leave the nest, it opens up more space. And although I chastised my youngest for his first question being, “Can I get Daniel’s room?” I couldn’t help but think in the back of my mind how I could finally have an office.
So one day we were all talking about the changes that would happen. My youngest is going to get the coveted bedroom, the largest one that is upstairs and tucked away from the rest of us. It is the one we have always jokingly called, “Daniel’s cave.”
So I suppose since my youngest is just two months away from turning 13, it will then become “Jacobs’ cave.”
My daughter wants to move into the finished room in the basement that my husband and I currently use. I hated it when we had to take the bedroom in the basement but several years ago when we moved into our house the kids were all too “scared” to sleep in the basement.
It’s a nice-sized room, fixed up and even comes with an electric fireplace. Well now that my daughter is older, she wants to take that room.
So this means we are going to move our bedroom back up to the main floor, into what is now my youngest son’s room. That leaves my daughter’s bedroom free. Oh the plans I have for my own office space.
But as we were all talking my oldest son was quietly taking it in. He then asked, “So where do I sleep when I come home to visit?” We hadn’t thought of that. But we all had a good laugh.
Here we are already planning what to do when he leaves…but in a strange way it helps to lighten things up.
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