Musical beds

I have written a long and over-the-top salute to the year but it's on the computer at home, the one upstairs with the dodgy space-bar and not here where I am so instead of all that I will tell you a bit about the bed situation...

After much chatting between us(Bax included) about how to solve his sleeping arrangements - to catch you up he is now sleeping in our bed every night because he finds his room so spooky and he just sits there crying sometimes til midnight at which time he is so shaky and upset that he ends up with us anyway...what with him sprawling and G snoring I usually debunk to the spare room or into Bax's bed which I don't find spooky in the least.!

So we have a picture in a children's book that Nana Anna sent us of a sort of hidy hole bunk bed with curtains and so currently G is in the shed til all hours building bunks like you've never seen bunks before and I am inside making the curtains...and last night we got so caught up in it that we skipped tea and forgot to put Bax to bed (he is very good at playing quietly when he wants to be) and so there we were at 9pm sitting around my sewing machine drinking hot chocolate and easting vegemite on toast. Meanwhile Izzie had woken up and was whimpering so I went up and there she was covered in fluff because she had made a little hole in her pillow and had picked all the insides out. I scooped her up and she sat on the floor half asleep as I made her bed - she is so cute with her big blue eyes and her blonde curls and her soft pink PJs with the built in slippers and her rabbit.

Izzie's bed is a special one. It is still the Argos Portacot we bought for 40pounds and which is small enough to fit on Nana Anna's canal boat when she had it - we bought the cot for Bax and he hated it but Izzie loves it. Then inside the portacot goes the purple patch work quilt our lovely Ali B made then on top of that the sheep skin Ann gave us when Bax was born then in one corner the fairy pillow Gran bought before Bax was born - so all together it is very special this little bed and I'll be sad to see it all packed up...But when Izzie woke up again at 3 because she just couldn't lie straight I thought that maybe she would like a spot on the great Ark that's being built in the shed - maybe the bottom bunk.

So at the C of D this am Izzie and I were all stretched out in the spare bed - Izzie luxouriating in the space - then G and Bax came in and curled up too and I thought - Geez it's a good thing we have so many choices of where to sleep in this house.

Even Django has a new bed. I put it together myself . (That;s a lie actually, I tried to put it together but it's a terrible design and I didn't have the right tools and I was working under pressure and the bolts were a bit too fiddly and and and in the end Bax said "I'll call Geebs" and off he ran inside to tell G that Mummy couldn't put the dog bed together and needed help....)