Dancing and bracelets and lemonade

 Genevieve has a loft bed and Chloe has a bookshelf headboard bed I built a few months ago. They’re perpendicular to each other. Genevieve usually hops off onto the end of Chloe’s bed to get down. Or she steps on the windowsill. But the other day, as she got down, she tripped and fell full weight down on Chloe’s bed. I love how her headboard turned out, but I haven’t loved the footboard and side rails. But I didn’t expect them to fail quite so epically! The side rail split and the side of the bed crashed to the carpet. Surprisingly the footboard is fine. Just the side rail is busted and the hardware that attached it to the headboard pulled out a bit. Thankfully Genevieve was fine! Chloe was quite distraught about her bed, but I was able to organize a great solution for her.

We bought a pair of new mattresses to replace some foam ones but kept the old ones for sleepovers. They were just under Aaron and Chloe’s beds. But Aaron’s covered his vent, so we spun it so it stuck out. I found that annoying, but the kids didn’t so I didn’t worry about it. But with this situation I took both of those mattresses and stacked Chloe’s on top of ir. I turned her bed 90 degrees but left the headboard as it was, so now she has a side board, which is actually really awesome. I don’t even know if I’ll fix the side rails! This works really well. She loves it. And there’s more room for Genevieve to get up and down now. Plus, the Lego table isn’t in the middle of the room anymore, which I also like. Success! Making lemonade out of lemons! 

I’ve been on a bracelet making kick since girls camp. The girls ask me to try new patterns and it’s fun. I just bought a batch of new thread. This is my latest. I think the pattern is so cool. 

Bill and I got to go to a country hoe down themed birthday party for a friend and we had the best time! It included an hour of real life square dancing, with a caller and everything. I haven’t been to one of those since I was about 12 and at my grandparents house in the summers. They lived in a tiny town and hosted square dances in their barn. There were significantly less ruffles at this party, but it was still just as fun. Great memories mixed with a really good time.