Harry's Room

Thanks for the suggestions. I know I should probably buy a nice box of some sorts for the clothes of Harry's I want to keep.

One of the challenges is that I have to figure out which of his clothes I am okay with the new baby wearing and which ones are just "too Harry" for anyone else to wear. I just don't feel ready to make those decisions. Yet that is usually the way isn't it - life thrusts us into situations where we have to make decisions before we are ready.

I'm debating just pushing his dresser into the middle of his room and wrapping it well in plastic and not doing anything until the reno is over. I know it just isn't realistic to figure on buying the baby an entirely new wardrobe - I'm already too much of a Winnipegger to go to that sort of extravagence! I know Harry would want his little brother to wear some of his clothes. I think I'll be okay with the baby clothes. It is going to be the outfits he wore post-diagnosis and especially the ones in the months just before he passed over. I think those ones will just hold too much of Harry's energy for anyone else to wear.

So I know at some point I have to sort through all his clothes and decide what to save as special and what to give to the baby. But I just don't want to do that right now! Maybe I'll start with everything else in his room and leave the dresser till the last and in the process it will come to me what to do.

Siobahn - we did receive the lovely book - thank you so much. It was so incredibly kind of you to think to buy it and send it. I have been so bad at sending emails ever since Harry was diagnosed. I read them, but take forever to respond!

Peace,
Cynthia