[selfhelpqueen]

My husband and his dad started working on our basement on Friday! Yeah!!!!

I'm wondering about your opinions on bedroom arrangements. We will have four bedrooms to split between six children. Our first five boys are 12, 10, 8, 4, and 2 and then we have a little girl who's 7 months old. From what I can see we have some options.

Option #1 is for the youngest four to share two rooms between them and then the oldest two get their own rooms. The only things holding me back from this decision is the fact that there's almost a four year age gap between our eight and four year old and a two year old sharing a bedroom w/ a baby usually doesn't work out very well. The other concern is that once DD is old enough to need her own room then DS2 will go from having his own room to sharing (probably in about 3-4 years).

Option #2 is that DS1 and DD each get their own rooms and the two other rooms are shared between the 2&4 year old and the 8&10 year old. If we were to to do this I think this would be the arrangement until DS1 moves out of the house which isn't for another 7 years. Is this too long to have the same roommate?

The third option that is completely selfish on my part is that we share three bedrooms among six kids and I get a room to do w/ whatever I please. Probably not very realistic.

As you can see there are a lot of dynamics to the bedroom arrangements.

Also, the child who ends up getting their own room really should be upstairs because the bedrooms downstairs are considerably bigger. That would then mean that, in theory, my two and four year old's bedroom would be downstairs right next to their older brothers' room. Is that too young? (Their bedrooms will be right at the bottom of the stairs.)

Anyway, I bring this up because I'm not sure what to do and would love your thoughts on this. Please help!