Separate spaces

The reality of giving the kids their own rooms

Sometime between starting fifth grade and last Christmas, Ada became fixated on having her own room. The room she’d occupied with Julian, is no more than 10’ x 10’ and upon moving into the apartment back in 2021, Jacob and I spent an agonizing 7 hours in the not-yet-air-conditioned box, constructing a bunk bed in the room from a 142-page instruction boo…