Christian’s Room

Truly, it’s a miracle that I found these photos. I searched for two days through huge picture boxes and went through countless folders of pictures on old hard drives. If you think I have a lot of digital photos, imagine what I accumulated while shooting film. Some things were just lost in the craziness, but luckily, I still have my scrapbooks documenting Christian’s every second of life until he was 5.  The nursery was very similar to Jackson’s, except Christian had it first. There were stars and moons everywhere, but the room was in a different house. When it was time to move into the big boy room at the new house, we hired a friend to paint a mural on the wall to match his quilt. It was ADORABLE! The road circled the entire room and had the cutest dog riding, hiding and even sometimes driving the little truck. Christian said he didn’t even remember having his room like this. Really? After all that? I still have this entire set because it was just too cute to part with. Our friend did such a fabulous job on the mural, but she got me thinking that I could give something a little more challenging than stars a try. Just like Jackson decided he was too big for his “big boy” room, Christian did the same. Only, instead of football being the new love, it was baseball. As usual, I found a cool quilt, and we set off to decide what I would paint on the walls.I decided to mimic the players on his quilt across the wall,  only I changed every other guy into a uniform that Christian had worn, now is that personal or what?! I never did change the orange jersey down at the end to blue for his Braves team, even though Christian mentioned it from time to time. Sometimes I’m just a bad Momma, what can I say?I painted his white dresser red, and made the door pulls look like baseballs. It was a hit, and it was good to be a big boy.Around the time Jackson started pushing for a bigger boy room, Christian started pushing for a more grown up room. Do you know how hard it was to change my boys rooms to mural free zones? But ya know, it’s not about me anymore, it’s about them. Christian and I thumbed through PBTeen, yes TEEN, and found a good quilt. He didn’t want a theme, but he did want a little outdoorsy, hunting thing going, just small touches he could get rid of if he got tired of it.He really loves it, and I have to say, it is very age appropriate. Hopefully it will get him into his teenage years, but then I’m painting another mural, dammit!