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(I actually think it has a name more like "The mountain star hotel" due to the mountains on the name badges I picked up off the floor tonight…)

Anyways.  Our playroom has been leased by a hotel operation for coming up on 2 weeks now.  I have a love/hate relationship with this arrangement.  

What I love:  

1.  The hotel was created the day before mothers day, and on mothers day while Nate was at his meetings I checked into room 105 and was encouraged to hang out or nap in my room [corner of the room] by all the kids while they were respectful hotel employees and gave me my privacy.  I actually shut my eyes for almost 15 minutes!  

(my room in the back… Zach had already snagged the love sack for his room.)

2.  The creativity!  They divided it into "rooms", made numbers and room card keys, set up a cash register for check in, have division of labor (someone makes the beds, someone registers the guests, someone wipes down stuff at the hotel with a bucket of water in the basement…)

3.  The teamwork.  They came up with it together, they talk in the morning about how right when they get home from school they are heading to run the hotel, they come up with ideas together, and they lobby together to keep the hotel around when I am ready to close it.  

4.  It is downstairs.  

What I don't love so much:  

1.  pretty much every item from the playroom is out to create the dividers between rooms, Meg's blanket for her crib hasn't been in her room since the hotel's inception (nor have either of Emma's pillows), and if you forget you are in a hotel it just looks like chaos reigns supreme…

2.  The bucket of water in the basement that someone uses to wipe down stuff.  

3.  Arguments about who gets which hotel job.  And arguments about people being loud during "hotel nap time" (when no one was actually trying to nap and no one was being loud either.)

4.  The first Sunday it was around all the kids packed a suitcase and changed out of their church clothes at the hotel… and when we couldn't figure out where their church clothes were the next Sunday we found them wadded in their suitcases.  

Really, though, the negatives are funny and the positives are awesome and the hotel lives on to die another day.  (Although their ability to offer food (candy) was revoked due to wrappers in the lobby and any cleaning that requires water can be done with a baby wipe.)  I guarantee that this will be one of those things we all look back on and smile at.