Sharing

The relationship between Tara and Coryn is amazing. They have a really special bond. And while sometimes there is screaming, hitting and probably a bit of hatred, the flip side is something beautiful. It is best seen at night when the two of them sit together reading books. They will gather a stack of 20 picture books and read until they are both exhausted. It is sweet to hear Tara ask Coryn questions about the pictures, text and read with such expression. It is just as sweet to hear Coryn ask questions and constantly say "read this one next".

We have four bedrooms in our house which seems perfect for our family of five. But over the last year this has been less than perfect, because of these two little people who love each other so much. We can put them to bed at night and after a few minutes hear them finding their way together to sleep. Usually this is Coryn moving from her bed into Tara's. OR they both decide to take all of their bedding and sleep on the floor in the loft area. A lot of times Coryn ends up in our bed. This morning I woke up in a panic realizing that her head was down by my feet under the covers. Luckily she was still breathing! But surely one of the scariest things for a mother. We have known for awhile that this set-up is not ideal, but what do we do?

Today we solved our problem. Just because we HAVE four bedrooms does not mean that we HAVE to use them all for sleeping. The girls have loft beds, but Coryn wasn't keen on being up hight SO we lowered both of the beds and put them in one room together; head to head. They are completely excited about sharing a room. As a child I always wanted to share a room with my big sister. She would never hear of it, so I guess I can live vicariously through these two sisters.