Day 10: Your favorite room in your house.
One of the things that made this house so appealing to us was the big basement den/family room. We instantly knew that this would be the room in which we spent most of our time — it was perfect for us, with plenty of room for Coraline to play and in which to entertain guests. (To the left of that three-headed lamp, just around the corner, is our home gym. And adjacent to that is the kitchenette.) After almost exactly two years of living here, this is indeed our most-used room in the house. And, dare I say, most popular — whenever our nephews come to visit, they immediately want to go downstairs. Rich, Coraline, and I spend every evening together in here, from the time we get home from work until Coraline’s bedtime. We watched Coraline learn to crawl and then walk and then run in this room. We held her first birthday party here. We’ve had gaming sessions and new year’s get-togethers here. It’s the room the entire extended family retreated to after Thanksgiving dinner. It’s where I held a chick-flick-a-thon back in February (and hopefully another one at the end of this month). And this Saturday, it will be the room in which we host my parents’ 40th(!) wedding anniversary party (thanks to my sisters for getting the ball rolling on that). I’ll be consulting with the siblings the next couple of days to figure out what decorating route we want to go. I’m thinking nothing too fancy since (1) it’s for a cookout and (2) the room looks like a Howard Johnson room frozen in time. Seriously — I cannot wait until we can afford to redo this whole room. And yet wait I must. Sigh.
You should see this room after Coraline and her cousins have trashed it.
