Emma's Bedroom Gets a Makeover

Emma left early Sunday morning to go to Williamsburg VA with Kevin's parents and boy am I missing her. This is the first time that she has been away from home for this long. She's stayed at my cousins house overnight but hasn't been away longer that 24 hours. We've spoken on the phone about 4-5 times a day. She is having a blast. The condo that they are at has three pools. One indoor, one outdoor and a kiddie pool.

Kevin and I decided that while she was away, we would re-do her bedroom. I asked her before she went on vacation if she could pick any color, what color would she want her bedroom to be. She picked purple. So, off I went to the paint store and found the perfect purple for the room. I thought it would be a simple paint job but, nothing seems to be simple anymore. There was some wallpaper that had to be removed but, I didn't realize that there were two layers of wallpaper with paint in between the two layers. It probably took us longer to remove the wallpaper than it did to paint the room. There were also some holes in the drywall that when they were repaired, only a piece of tape was put over so, Kevin respackled and we had to wait for that to dry and then sand and respackle again. So, the small project of just painting turned into two days of work. But, the finished product was well worth it.

We can't wait for Emma to come home on Thursday to see her new room. Let's just pray that she'll want to sleep in her room now.

(That's a whole other post about her sleeping habits)

Here are some pictures of the finished room.

The bed looks huge in the pictures. It's just a twin.