Because it’s hectic in our work related world, Mom decided that her project for today was re-arranging the boyen den. I had, foolishly, made a chance remark on how to better utilize the space in the room. The result was Mom moving out most of the furniture, and taking all of the shelves and other attachments off the wall, then moving everything back. I think the room does look a bit better — there’s now a small nook next to the bed just wide enough for small chair and a reading lamp. Charles said it was “OK”.
As long as Mom was paying attention, I said that we could look at not having the reading nook, but putting a small mattress in there for Alice and turning her room in to a library / clothes storage area. Charles thought that was fine, as his clothes are in the closet so it would be Corwin’s that would be moved out. Alice thought it was a wonderful idea. It was so tempting to set it up just to mess with Corwin’s mind when he got back, but I didn’t think I could handle the aftermath of Alice discovering we were just kidding.