Oh, EEEP. Kidney-ma in abundance to your mom, Suzi. Keep us posted!
Would it be possible to put shelves up higher than normal, like around the border of the ceilings, maybe a foot down, for books and things, and Hec can get up on a chair when they're needed?
Thought of that and still might do it, but there are money issues and wall-integrity issues -- the building was chopped up into separate apartments from what was probably a single dwelling, and some of the walls are oddly pasteboardy and not really reliable-seeming. We have one long near-ceiling shelf in the living room, but the wall behaved really weirdly, even using anchors and braces, and I pretty much trust the shelf only as a display area for vintage paperbacks. No way will anything that actually weighs anything go on that shelf.
Same deal with my attempt to put shelves in the one hallway closet -- even with anchors and bracing and whatnot, half the shelf brackets just toppled out of the wall the second they were asked to bear any weight.
Are you planning on eventually doubling her and Emmett up?
That was under consideration a while ago when baby-having was purely theoretical and Emmett was rather more wee, but, really? Middle school boy and girl toddler whose existence he already sort of resents in one room? Doesn't seem to work. And Emmett's room is already a worse ineptly-stored detritus disaster than the rest of the apartment. With two? Holy fuck.
I'm now considering storing all the vintage dresses until we move and doing a major wardrobe purge, down to 3 knit dresses, 3 skirts, 3 pairs of leggings or pants, 6 tops, and 6 pairs of shoes. That'd be enough stuff that, if I kept the vintage hats, I could still rotate enough to feel vaguely dressy and non-repetitive and free up two dresser drawers and the living room closet.
Aimée, I can't get into my SFistas email from here and Hec is napping... when exactly are we meeting for dinner?