Transitioning
Feb. 26th, 2016 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stgulikThe first manic throes of empty nest syndrome are over. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) a mild yet sticky cold slowed me down for a week, and now I'm thinking a little more calmly.
We are closer to turning my daughter's old room into a proper guest bedroom, free from teenage girl clutter. We'll store boxes of books, piano music, posters and stuffed animals in the garage. She wants them, but she has no room for them right now, so into storage they go! Then we'll pull in a wooden bedstead we've owned for years. It was part of a set my groom's grandmother bequeathed him. It will be nice to set it up again.
The other pieces from Grandma's set are in our own bedroom and in active use. But we own a small dresser that we bought way back when I was a jr. sub-assistant manager at Montgomery Ward. It matches the style and will be perfect size. Right now it sits next to Groom's desk in his den, which is not the best place for it because it's half-filled with my quilting projects. I will have to find a new home for those projects in the future, preferably before we have actual guests. (Oh, also, we'll have to buy a full-size mattress and box spring before we have guests. Oy!)
After the dresser is moved out of the groom's den, he intends to move (from the garage) a bookshelf that's been in his family for years. It was built by his father and grandpa, and has great sentimental value, as do the books that are usually arrayed on it. When everything is finally installed where it should be, Groom will be a happy man and the garage will be that much more uncluttered--except for my daughter's boxes. Thus are we squiring furniture, boxes and books from place to place about the house, like a slow gavotte.
In other news, I bought a tiny, second-hand espresso machine at a yard sale. It's darling. I kind of want to name it, but I know that's just a symptom. Anyway, I know nothing about espresso-making. Do you buy special beans? Special grind? The instruction manual is somewhat vague.
We are closer to turning my daughter's old room into a proper guest bedroom, free from teenage girl clutter. We'll store boxes of books, piano music, posters and stuffed animals in the garage. She wants them, but she has no room for them right now, so into storage they go! Then we'll pull in a wooden bedstead we've owned for years. It was part of a set my groom's grandmother bequeathed him. It will be nice to set it up again.
The other pieces from Grandma's set are in our own bedroom and in active use. But we own a small dresser that we bought way back when I was a jr. sub-assistant manager at Montgomery Ward. It matches the style and will be perfect size. Right now it sits next to Groom's desk in his den, which is not the best place for it because it's half-filled with my quilting projects. I will have to find a new home for those projects in the future, preferably before we have actual guests. (Oh, also, we'll have to buy a full-size mattress and box spring before we have guests. Oy!)
After the dresser is moved out of the groom's den, he intends to move (from the garage) a bookshelf that's been in his family for years. It was built by his father and grandpa, and has great sentimental value, as do the books that are usually arrayed on it. When everything is finally installed where it should be, Groom will be a happy man and the garage will be that much more uncluttered--except for my daughter's boxes. Thus are we squiring furniture, boxes and books from place to place about the house, like a slow gavotte.
In other news, I bought a tiny, second-hand espresso machine at a yard sale. It's darling. I kind of want to name it, but I know that's just a symptom. Anyway, I know nothing about espresso-making. Do you buy special beans? Special grind? The instruction manual is somewhat vague.
