If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that your home will evolve with your family as it grows, and you have to allow that to happen. It sounds like you’re definitely planning in practical ways for the future – so glad we’re not alone in this! All of these things in terms of practicality can be a bit tricky for sure! And yes. Those bills. We got a month break in between homes but here they come again. I still have small panic attacks if I stop too long and think about it because adulting is absolutely terrifying. 😀

We have three boys (ages 11, 7, and 1). The older two share a small bedroom (10×11), and the baby is in the other small bedroom. When he was born, we lost our playroom. Thankfully, our current house has larger than average closets. In our next house, I want the boys’ bathroom to have two sinks and a separate toilet/tub room (or possibly a Jack & Jill set-up with a sink for each bedroom). I’m loving your idea of a shared closet space between bedrooms. We’ll likely have two of them keep sharing, but the oldest will get his own room instead of the baby. I’m hoping for slightly bigger bedrooms and some sort of bonus room that can be the play room. We do school in our formal dining room, and that will likely stay the same at the new house. I want that room to have a lot of flexibility for the future, and I need it to be on the main level since our kids have huge rolling backpacks that go back and forth to school with them (University-Model, so they go to school 2 days/week and we homeschool the other days). Anyway… I’m excited to see what all you guys do!

YAY! So glad we’re not alone in this. I feel a little like we’ll be hunkering down for the big time when they hit those years – we’ve already started to see a bit of that in our ten year old ::ahem:: they start to take on their own personalities and I just don’t know what to do! HAHA For some reason having a plan in place to accommodate their growth makes me feel better. It’s how I cope! 😀

YEs CeCe – we must be spirit twins because those are my thoughts exactly – started researching and think we can move that entire area just a bit more – we started scraping the ceilings yesterday and while I am sure I would be satisfied with that, what we REALLY want are bead board ceilings – I’m all If-You-Give-A-Mouse-A-Cookie over here with this house. But also trying very hard to stay within budget! 😀

Awe thanks Anne! Stuff like that makes me feel better – I don’t want my kids to have first world sob stories about how they were forced to share a room and stuff ;D

Awe thanks Beth! We are SO READY to get started!

Right?! We may be riding that cash cow for a while before the addition ;} Not sure I used the phrase “cash cow” in the right way, but additions are costly so we may be stretching it for a bit- ha!