Another installment!

Needless to say both Dad and I were well spent not being used to having so many around – meals to plan, things strewn all over and constant activity. I had told the children that they were free to go and play anywhere in the house except for my Celestial Room and that was my special room. (Later we thought we should have included the Terrestrial (the den) and consigned them all to the basement Telestial!) The small upstairs bedroom where Erica was assigned turned out to be the "reading room" where they would assemble to read their books and the basement bedrooms turned into "club rooms" where different combinations of children would form their clubs for whatever purpose seemed good at the moment