Tobin's Room: Before & After

This blog post is lovingly and gratefully dedicated to my friend Sally, without whom it would not have been possible.  :)  You see, Sally had been asking me for some time if she could keep the boys for me to give me some extra time to do whatever I wanted with it.  Today was the day, and I was looking forward to having time by myself to accomplish something.  With so many projects on my want-to-do list, what should I choose?  Tobin's room.

Here, in chronological order, is how my day went, showing how the project fared:

After I picked up the boys and heard all about what a WONDERFUL time they had at Sally's (Tobin kept asking, "When do we go there again?"), I brought them home, get them settled for naps and quiet time, then resumed my work.  Five hours after I started the project, it was finished.  Hooray for beginning and ending a project in the same day!  Hooray for friends who give the gift of time!  :)

After I was done, I tiptoed down to the library to check on Tobin, who was having his quiet time down there "for special," instead of in his room like normal.  This is what I found:

He's not the only one of my boys to fall asleep on this old brown chair.  :)

Thank you so much, Sally, for blessing me by giving me time, providing such a fun morning for my boys, and even feeding them lunch.  I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart!  :)