Pictures of Spare Bedroom

This is what our spare bedroom looks like today. We still have a few things to do in there before our exchange student gets here, but I wanted her to be able to see it as well. We now have

• a queen size bed with headboard (no footboard) with storage compartments
• a night stand with a drawer and book storage
• a dresser with mirror with areas for decorative items
• a chest of drawers (5 drawers)
• a cedar chest (for more storage)

We don't have any decorative items put up yet. We may wait on these until we know a little more about our new family member. We want this to be a room that she can enjoy and call her own. Ignore the comforter. We just threw one on (it's not the one we are going to use - just a cover for now) and the bed skirt is in the laundry.

Special Post for Our New Girl

This post is a special post just for our new exchange student. We finally got to talk with her in person last night and she wants to know more about us. This post is being done especially for her. Here are the pictures and some information that she has requested.

Here's our family from our vacation last summer:

These are pictures of our home (inside and outside):

These are pictures of our spare bedroom which will be your room:

The little bed is just being stored here. We are getting a queen size bed moved in to this room this weekend.

More pictures of our family:

Pictures of the grandparents:

Boo (that's our nickname for him) and one of his chickens. We live out in the country and have chickens, a cat and a garden that you can see in the background

Declutter Day 9

I didn't do much decluttering work on Monday since we had the home visit for our exchange student. I just kept up what work we had already done. It looks so nice. I hope we can keep it looking so great.

Declutter Day 8

Today was a major declutter day. I received a call from the representative that we have been working with in order to host an exchange student next school year. She will be coming by tomorrow for a home visit.

I had to declutter the spare bedroom (AKA the junk room, the boxes of stuff that we never put away after moving room, the excess baby stuff room, the scrapbook room, etc.). This was a job. Just going through things in there took so much time.

Here's a breakdown of some of what had to be done:
* closet cleaned out and straightened up
* bed linens put on shelf (they had been folded and put in the room but not put up)
* baby stuff sent to charity store
* books and movies (had previously been gone through and just being stored there) sent to
charity store
* camper stuff taken out to camper (bowls, toilet cleaner, dish cloths, tire covers, exterior rug) -
we had purchased some items that never made it to the RV
* air mattress disposal (won't hold air any longer)
* puzzles, scrapbook items, school papers put away
* vacuum (our cat had shredded a newspaper page in there)
* pictures put away
* old picture frames gone through and sent to charity store
* school supplies put away

We made it through this room and had to do some cleaning in several others, but we are now ready for our home visit. We are very much looking forward to hosting a student. What better incentive to get this room under control?