Bunk House, Baby!

Sometimes I get some pretty crazy ideas.

I usually run them by Tin Man by saying, "What if we..."

Generally, my crazy ideas are met with resistance (for some odd reason).

Like the time I ordered a blow-up headboard that fell over on us while we were sleeping.

(That was a blog post a few years back-) 

Or the time....well, there are just too many to recall, unfortunately...

(They were most likely blog posts too-)

Anywho, so at the end of last summer, I started a conversation with Tin Man that went a little something like this:

Me:

"Tin Man [I called him by his real name, actually-],

What if we retire the boy's tent at the cottage and get a shed and turn it into a bunk house for the boys!"

[Insert super-smiley face here-] 

Tin Man:

"No way."

Me:

"But the tent has been put up every summer for three or four years, and it has holes in it. Just think about getting a bunkhouse! The boys will love it!"

Tin Man:

"There is no way we are getting a 'bunkhouse'!"

Me:

"Hey! Good news! I found a builder who makes really neat sheds near the cottage! We can order one, have it built over the winter, and they can deliver it in the spring!!!

Tin Man:

"We. Are. Not. Buying. A. Shed."

Me:

"So you are saying you will think about it."

Tin Man:

"What? I said I am NOT thinking about getting a shed. We are not going to get a shed!"

But persistence is the key, I say:

See?! That's our bunk house!!!

It looked like this at first:

So I rented Tin Man a paint sprayer and out of the goodness of my heart, I paid for the paint out of my teaching money.

And he painted the inside of the shed, I mean, bunk house-for me:

(Aww, I think he looks like he is having fun! Well, I just bet he was having fun-)

Then came my very important contribution.

Decorating: (!!!)

I love how it turned out! It is all indoor-outdoor supplies, so it should clean up pretty well. (Easy clean-up: the look I was going for with these three boys...)

There are even two sleeping lofts above, but unfortunately, the rope ladders are not working like I thought they would. They swing around [insert frown face here-] too much, and Nature Boy nearly broke his foot trying to get down. 

So I told Tin Man he needs to build me two ladders so the boys can sleep up there (and get up and down relatively safely-) . 

He just laughed at me (I know, right? How rude!) and said, "Nope." 

But I'm not worried. Tin Man usually says no and I can talk him in to most things-

I mean, we have a bunkhouse now, right?!

(...who has a way of getting her way...insert wink, wink here-even the crazy ideas go through once in a while with Tin Man.)