Mom Cave

Shhhhh.....maybe if I am really quiet they won't find me!

This is the room I sometimes go to hide from my children.  Not like in a game of hide-n-seek, mind you, but in the I am on the phone and don't want them to hear me gossiping with one of my sisters kind of hiding...

 

Okay, so it isn't really a room.  I guess it is considered a foyer. Although, before my husband moved the front door of our house, this used to be a closet.  Now it's more of a foyer being used as a closet!  Clearly it is a space used to stash the Nerf weapons and the Star Wars Light Sabers so they are not easily accessed unless I am prepared to supervise the play.  It  is also great place to put the boxes my kids painted this summer for a skit that never happened.  In addition this space stores an inordinate amount of scrapbook supplies, because I scrapbook exactly one time a year and, well, where else am I going to keep that crap stuff?! Then there is a sewing machine on the floor I may never use and it looks like some garbage on the floor too, nice!  Ugh.

I have decided to make this space into a MOM CAVE.

My husband has a workshop/Man Cave and also the upstairs in the barn/Man Cave.  These places include a bar, pool table, air hockey and a refrigerator for beer (seriously a Man Cave envious to all the men in the neighborhood).  But, really why is that all necessary?  He can be in the house and the kids ignore him much of the time.  He watches what he wants on TV and they pass right by him to search me out and ask me things they could have easily asked Dad.  It is women that need a MOM CAVE!  A place we can call our own.  A place we can sit and read and get away from it all.  I know I have blogged about a particular chair and possibly a space on my property that would work.  However, realistically the Town may not approve of a small, separate house built on my property.  Therefore it is my intention to turn this foyer/closet/garbage pile into a Mom Cave with a great place to read and talk privately on the phone and maybe meditate. Hummmm

Since we are all about signs in our house this will be on the door: