The Boys’ Room
Categories: Left of the door is a dresser for Calfgrit8, on which there is:
a large blue lamp
a fish bowl full of sea shells
a fish bowl full of rocks
a piggy bank
an assortment of Lego pieces
Above the dresser is a corkboard full of tacked up pictures, paper crafts, and a Spider-Man calendar. Above the board are large, fabric letters spelling out both boys’ names.
On the other side of the dresser is a trash can and a dirty clothes hamper with a shirt sleeve hanging out. On the floor, in front of the hamper is a pair of underwear and pajama bottoms.
Right of the door is a bookshelf packed with probably 50 thin books. On top of the shelf is a sloppy stack of at least a dozen more books, a plastic box full of Pokemon cards, and a white sock (is it clean or dirty?).
Next is a chest of drawers for Calfgrit4, on which there is:
a wood coin bank
a wooden train with CG4′s name spelled out
a craft necklace
a few Lego pieces
Next is a kid-sized table against the corner, with two kid-sized chairs, on which is a large assortment of Lego pieces from probably ten different sets.
On the right wall is a large abstract painting of a lion (this is a sweet picture, but it really looks out of place among all the other decor) and a large framed poster of Spider-Man surrounded by all his villains (this more fits in with the other things in the room).
The far wall has a large box window, with hundreds of Lego pieces and random small toys completely covering the sill seat.
Next is the multi-colored toy box with small shelves above it, all filled with a random assortment of medium and small toys.
The toy box sits up against the bunk beds. The lower bunk, Calfgrit4′s bed, has Spider-Man stickers on the back wall, a tractor and truck blanket, and about a dozen stuffed animals. The biggest stuffed animal is a horse as big as its owner.
The upper bunk, Calfgrit8′s bed, has a poster of Star Wars Lego characters on the wall, a dinosaur blanket, and probably 20 stuffed animals. The biggest stuffed animal is a brown bear as big as CG8′s little brother.
Slid partially out from under the bed is a box of Bionicle action figures. The room floor is mostly clear, but there is a Bionacle, a clone trooper action figure, and several loose pieces of Lego scattered about.
The last wall has two doors for the closet. One door is halfway open, revealing a shelf of various games.
The room, as a whole, is in what we consider a “moderately neat” state. It can get far messier, and anything neater lasts only about 20 minutes. When I look at their room, I often wonder what about it they are going to remember most fondly.
Bullgrit
so are you trying to have stalkers snatch your kids?
Note that I didn’t tell the 7 digit alphanumeric code to initiate the retina scanner window lock. I didn’t mention the electrofied razorwire around the window sill. I didn’t reveal the placement of the three mutually covering, fully automatic sentry guns in the boys’ room. I didn’t tell the frequency and wavelength of the subdermal transmitter in both boys. And I didn’t say anything about either boy’s genetically enhanced superhuman physical and mental capabilities.
And all that is if you get past the Delta Force sniper team positioned on our roof, with standing orders to shoot pre-identified persons if they come within a half-klik.
None of this protects them from Mole-men…burrowing right up into the room. Sex offender mole men who refuse to be tracked by the government.
We happen to live above an active graboid lair, so the molemen are kept at bay.