Hiding

In our 23 year old home, we have many favorite spots that the grandchildren enjoy when they visit.  We have a secret passage—fully finished with carpet and lighting going from a bedroom to the bonus room. I’ll blog about that another time. We also have what we call a cubby hole in Joel’s old bedroom, and then when we built some bookshelves and cupboards in the family room, we accidently created another hiding/play place. We had to leave one cupboard space totally empty because of the furnace air return there. The younger grandchildren will crawl inside and we pretend we don’t know where they are.  We call out for them, and then finally, they burst out and say, “Here we are!”  It’s just a nice place to chill when one wants to get away from it all.  While most our grandchildren have hidden from us in this favorite spot, I don’t have a picture of all of them.  But here are a few. 

Let's start with the cubby hole in Joel's old bedroom:



Lydia readies the cubby hole - 2010



Almost ready for company

All set - Cousins Lydia and Hale - 2010

Now let's move downstairs to the favorite hiding space in the family room:

Cousins Koen and Josh enjoy playing - 2005



And why not push plastic cards into the hiding spot?

Cousins Claire and Josh approach the hiding spot - 2005

Cousins Claire and Josh are set - 2007

This pix of Afton and Lydia shows the hiding spot as found in the family room - 2010

Girls just wanna have fun - 2010

Cousins Lydia and Lincoln - 2011

And finally:  Lydia and Afton just a few days ago - 2011

**Coming soon: The secret passage from bedroom to bonus room.