BEDROOMS

Four of the five children sleep downstairs in the basement. It is an unfinished basement and all the beds were along one wall. Well I had been planning on making each their own room for a few months now. I just had to figure out what I would do for walls. Aunt Karen had a roll of fabric that is mesh and about four feet tall that she gave to us. I used some rods that we had for curtains and hung the fabric from the ceiling. The thing is that there are only two lights on the that end of the basement so the child in the middle doesn't have that much light. So Carl, Isaiah and James have one end of the basement and I put Haylea on the other end of the basement, so she is not with the boys. I was even able to hang a rod so that each boy has their own closet. And they figured out how to have their own dressing rooms.
They are all excited about having their own room. I keep telling them that they need to keep their rooms clean and they can earn a treat at the end of the week. They also like the idea that they don't have to let the others in their room. I am hoping that this causes less fighting and less of a mess. I will see.