Doodles is in that in-between stage. He’s well beyond little kid. But he’s not yet fully a big kid. And his room reflects this shambles. Books teeter precariously on his bedside shelf. Robotic pieces pile on the table, next to a motorized dog and his now-neglected Bakugan. His closet is still brimming with dress-up clothes but his magic set and Star Wars figures are in frequent rotation. I decided his room needed help. We had to organize. To start, he needs a bookshelf. A real bookshelf.<\/p>\n
Adam: Shall we go to Ikea and get one?<\/p>\n
Me: Those are crap. They fall apart so quickly. He needs a quality shelf that will last him a while.<\/p>\n
Adam does some research. He finds a place nearby that has nice quality unfinished bookshelves.<\/p>\n
Adam: What size should we get him?<\/p>\n
Me: I dunno. What will work.<\/p>\n
Adam measures the space. He jots down notes. He looks at the space again.<\/p>\n
Adam: Do you want to get him a six foot one or a five foot one?<\/p>\n
Me: Six feet seems too big. Will a five foot fit? I think we should do that.<\/p>\n
Adam: Yeah, that will fit.<\/p>\n
Me: Are you sure? Five feet seems really big.<\/p>\n
Adam: No, it’ll be fine.<\/p>\n
Me: I dunno. Maybe measure again?<\/p>\n
Adam: It’ll fit. I promise you, it’ll work.<\/p>\n
Me: Okay. Go for it.<\/p>\n
Adam calls. The five foot one is not available. They’ll order it. It’ll take five long weeks. When I get my head wrapped around a project, I want it to happen now<\/em>. But now <\/em>is not possible. But this is one of the many reasons I’m in therapy so I agree to wait the five weeks.<\/p>\n Finally, it arrives at the store!<\/p>\n Me: How will you get it home?<\/p>\n Adam: In the van.<\/p>\n Me: It won’t fit in the van.<\/p>\n Adam: Of course it’ll fit in the van.<\/p>\n Beetle was nearby. I say to her: Adam thinks it’s going to fit in the van.<\/p>\n Beetle: Oh, it totally will. You won’t believe how much will fit in those things.<\/p>\n Adam and the kids go to pick up the bookshelf. He comes home. With the bookshelf on top <\/em>of the van.<\/p>\n Adam: It didn’t fit.<\/p>\n My cousins come to town. I have my strapping young seventeen-year-old cousin help Adam carry the bookshelf up the stairs. Up our narrow stairs. Up our not-up-to-code unbelievably tight stairs. Because Doodles’s room is upstairs.<\/p>\n I’m not saying a word. Not a peep. I won’t mention a thing. But I will mention that our expensive, not-Ikea bookshelf looks highly okay in the basement. And Adam is now supposed to be researching bookshelves. Narrow bookshelves. And the books in Doodles’s room are still teetering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doodles is in that in-between stage. He’s well beyond little kid. But he’s not yet fully a big kid. And his room reflects this shambles. Books teeter precariously on his bedside shelf. Robotic pieces pile on the table, next to a motorized dog and his now-neglected Bakugan. His closet is still brimming with dress-up clothes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}