Hooray!

Day before yesterday, I somehow convinced Mother Auma to rearrange my room, Mariel's room back into the schoolroom, and Cornflower's room for both of them.

I don't know how I did it or even why we were talking about it in the first place, but I did, we were and now our rooms are rearranged.

For months I'd been asking Mother Auma and Daddy to let me put my bed by the window. Dad refused because "bunk beds don't go by windows". So when Mom and I took an allen wrench (one of those things that looks like an old-fashioned well crank and takes forever to find) and a few screwdrivers to that bed, we detached it from the bottom bunk, a desk, and moved the desk piece by piece into the schoolroom.

My bed is now smack by the window, with the organizing credenza (I am using it for a desk) near my feet and my dresser beside my head. My mirror and dressing table are by the desk and I now have room for a bookshelf and at least 64 square feet of open space in the middle (suitable for dancing, playing around, twirling round and round with the fan until you collapse, sleepover space, etc, etc, etc).

I am very happy with my room. For the last 2 mornings I have been waking up with sunbeams on my face. Just like in a book.