Ages and Stages!

It seems like life is changing really quickly around here! Kids. They just grow up so fast. A-Dog turning 12. The twins turning 2. Agent P going to Kindergarten soon... Just so many changes. Every day Mini P surprises me with a new sentence. The girl is 2 and she talks all day long, but it's ok. Because one day she will be 12 and not have much to say. Agent P is now reading to me - small books, but he's reading at 4.5 yrs old. Monkey is Monkey - over reacting when someone even sneaks a peek at one of his treasured trucks.

And at 12, A-Dog is a budding tween so close to being a teenager. The dreaded teenager :- )! He is a humorous tween. His sense of humor is amazing and he comes up with some hilarious retorts. Most of all, he gets me. He understands my dry humor and plays along. Most of the time. Sometimes his lack of 'commom sense' takes over. But more often than not, he is quite funny!

I want you all to know and understand, A-Dog does not complain. Ever. Or at least rarely.  He has shared a room with Agent P for the last 2.5 years. A-Dog slept up in his loft and Agent P underneath in his toddler bed. It was tight, but it worked. There were many nights when Agent P was noisy and annoying. But never a complaint, never a plea for space, never. For that I am grateful. I think he understood I was swapping and moving and rearranging as quickly as I could given what I had to work with.

Yes we could move to a bigger house, but we are happy here. So here we stay and out he goes.

I have now lost my office. My home office where I paid my bills, I work on my Little League work, use my computer, hide from my kids...and now that is all gone.

Gone because I gave it away.

I gave it to A-Dog.

Honestly, I'm happy that I did! Happy I was able to give something to someone who really asks so little. And he does - ask for very little. So, this is what I gave to him. A room where he can go and listen to music, watch TV, do his homework, hibernate....so many things. I'm sure he is genuinely happy. Thankful for the space and a place for just him. I get how important that can be for a 12 year old.

I will live with the stacks of things in my room. I will find them new homes. I will declutter it and minimize it.  All for the A-Dog!!! For him, I am willing to sacrafice :- )