Nick's Room

Ah, pretty decent day today. I got to sleep late this morning, which was exactly what i needed. Trish woke me up after she got the kids onto the bus and asked if I wanted to go to breakfast with her and her sister. i didn't. I wanted to sleep and she left, leaving behind a quiet house. I slept like a champ, opening my eyes at 10:50 to start my day. Excellent.

I got a few things done around the house and banged out a kick ass workout - chest and back. I'm still holding my own for an old man.

Anyway, Nick's room. Nick is my son, the oldest of my children. A year ago, give or take, he'd told me he wanted a Space and Sky theme applied to his room. I'd put together a fairly basic compilation of pieces over time, including a sparse scattering of glow-in-the-dark stars on his ceiling surrounding a planetary mobile he put together. I tossed a few trinkets around the room, like a lava lamp with an alien fetus in the center, a lightning disc, one of those Eye of the Storm globes and a black light mounted on the wall. But he needed something else in there, something to pull the room together and help to create an overwhelming sense of space inside.

One night about mid-Summer, i was laying on his bed while he was at his cousin's for a sleep over. i was looking around the room, trying to get a sense of what would pull the ambiance together, what it needed to bring out the space theme in a bold way.

The ceiling in Nick's room has an angled slant across from his bed and it was here my eyes kept returning. Something about that blank, square expanse was bothering me. It held the promise of a starscape, constellations, etc. It was decided that day I would transform the ceiling space in his immediate sight.

My mom loves every second she gets to spend with the kids. One of the things she wanted to do this summer was spend a week with the kids down in Jersey, minus Grace of course because she's not old enough yet. I took this as the perfect opportunity to do what I'd envisioned in Nick's room.

I thought I had the pictures in my computer to add to this post but i don't. Bummer. I'll have to see if Trish has them in hers and send them to my e-mail. Guess I'll finish this later...