Christmas Guest Room - A Few Miner Adjustments

Christmas Guest Room...No Frogs Allowed

We have this room.

It is over the garage and according to our blueprints it is called the "bonus room".

We call it something different though.

The FROG.

{Sidebar: I love~hate frogs.

I hate real live frogs.  They terrify me.  We’re talking frozen-in-fear-screaming-at-the-top- of-my-lungs-like-I-am-dying terrified. Their hopping pattern is so unpredictable...how do I know it won't jump across my foot?!? But I love frogs. 

Cute frogs on scarves.

Ceramic frogs that your best friend sends to you for your birthday a million years ago to hold the dish sponge, but you take to your classroom to hold post-its and think of her instead.

Anyway, The FROG. It stands for Family Room Over Garage.

Ours is the guest room.

So when the boys asked to decorate last week, I said yes. A thousand times yes. However, it was a little too early for me to have Christmas downstairs. So we took it to the FROG.

The theme: Frogs. Kids and Christmas cards.

My friends send out the loveliest Christmas cards.  Maybe people keep them through the season and then recycle them on January 1^st.

But I, I think they are too special to toss.  So I keep them. And then I think, what can I do with these?

Make a few Miner adjustments and decorate a tree of course.

This year’s tree dons last year’s Christmas cards.

I smiled from ear to ear as I fit those cards in and the boys buzzed around hanging their ornaments. Mostly, too close to each other, but they are happily hanging there. This is their tree after all. Our guests will love the warmth this tree brings to the room. And the added "bonus"….there are no actual frogs hopping around.  No one wants to hear me scream.