What crazy big families do!

We are still waiting on the Zambian government - no news yet. There are supposed to be important meetings tomorrow and next week. We are hoping that those are the last of the "important" meetings and that things will get moving soon.

OK - so while we wait we are preparing and organizing, trying to figure out how a family of 9 can function well in our 4 bedroom house. For us, the beds are not a problem. All of our kids would sleep in 1 bed if we let them. The problem is more with the clothes, shoes, toys and messes. These new houses now a days really scrimp on the kids' closets. Clothes for 4 girls was just not going to fit! We have gleaned ideas from other large families, especially that large family that I am sure you have seen on TV, the Duggars, who have like 18 kids (no we are not their groupies, but we too are a large Christian family, homeschool and name our kids with "J" names). SO . . . . I found some clothing racks at a garage sale and my dad hung closet poles and a shelf all along one wall and we moved all of the dressers into what used to be our nursery and . . . voila. . . we now have one big closet room. It stores all of the clothes for our 7 children. The beauty of this is that there are never clothes on the floor in their rooms anymore. Yes, I already have clothes for the boys - some handed down to us and others from garage sale - of all sizes from 3 months to 5 yrs old. I also included 2 pictures of the boys' room. I just found that Pottery Barn surf crib bedding last weekend at a garage sale. It goes perfectly with Jordan's surf/baseball room.