Finishing your room!

   The original plan, was for the girls to room together.  That might still happen, someday.  But when one of your daughters doesn't go to sleep very well, (cough... cough... Quinn!) and makes some questionable choices... on the regular,  you rethink the original plan, and decide to go to plan B.  Plan B, being that Palmer is moved over to our former guest room, with his own bathroom, and you turn Palmer's former room, into Rowan's new digs.  Her room, and Quinn's, are connected via a Jack and Jill bathroom.  Hopefully, someday, they can share rooms.  But for the time being, they have separate rooms.    

Ross made an amazing "house" bed, and her room has come together, with so much love from others.  

Her bed:  Ross worked on this bed for weeks, and it really came together!  It started out with a simple frame, and then we brainstormed together, to make an easier way to get out, and adding strength to the structure.  It now has a door, and a back window!    Over the top of the bed, hangs a pink blanket. This blanket was from my grandma, and I discovered it, in a bag of fabric that she used to sew with.  I love that it hangs over Rowan's bed, as I know my grandma would have loved her!    Sitting on the bed is a doll, which a fellow adoptive mom, Emily, gifted to Rowan.  It is adorable!

Next to her bed, there sits a bookshelf, and on it, a watercolor that my cousin Jeny made for Rowan.  It was the very first gift that Rowan ever got, and it is so special to me, and I hope it will be to Rowan one day!  On the shelf are so many books that we had saved from when Palmer and Quinn were younger, and also so many new books, about Korean culture, and about adoption.  And on the bookshelf, is a lamp, with a shade I made while pregnant for Palmer.  We can't wait to be in this room with her, and to rock her in the glider, and to read these books to her. 

On the wall, is Rowan's full name.  The name that we are giving her, the one we can share with you now, and her Korean name - the one she will always have, but we cannot share until we are legally her parents. Both are her name, and we will call her by both.  She gets to decide what we call her.  She gets to decide what those outside our family call her.  

This blanket was gifted to Rowan from her Aunt Heidi!  It’s kind of her thing - she gifted a blanket to me when I was pregnant for Palmer, and that blanket has been loved by both Palmer and Quinn!  Now this one, is for Rowan! ❤️

We spend so much time in her room.  It reminds me of the time I spent in Palmer and Quinn's nurseries, before their arrivals.  The dreaming.  The rocking in the glider, taking it all in.  The organizing of the clothing.  The rearranging, again and again.  The final touches.  The joy of life added to our family!