The New Play Area

Our house has this strange little nook above our stairs that when we first moved in we decided to use as our office space. We wanted our spare bedroom to function as a guest room and the space was too small to put a desk and computer in so the little nook housed that stuff. Unfortunately, since Nick and I both use laptops and next to never use our desktop, the office space was just a catch-all for all things paper and don't-want-to-deal-with-this crap. And our guest room was pretty much the same story. We hardly ever have guests stay with us so for the other 355 days of the year the guest room was just a catch-all for storage and other things I didn't want to deal with.

So we decided to get rid of our guest bed and turn our guest room into the office slash extra storage slash air mattress guest room for the occasional visitor. And the nook that housed the office stuff we turned into a play area for the girls.

It's pretty much my favorite area of the house! I love it! It's so fun to watch the girls play together in their kitchen. Sometimes we play store, sometimes restaurant, sometimes tea party, and sometimes we play house and have dinner and do the dishes.

And sometimes, if only for a moment, the girls get along and have fun playing together. Sometimes.