This one is going to be short and quick.  While I love our master bedroom it’s not mack daddy by any standards.  If you’re familiar with old houses you’ll know very rarely are there large master bedrooms (in very large homes, yes, there are) and therefore our room is tiny when compared to today’s master bedroom standards.  We can still fit a king-size bed, bureau, dresser, fireplace, and two nightstands…but it’s a tight fit.  When we add our bathroom in ten years or so we’ll move across the hall to the larger bedroom that is adjacent to the kitchenette-turned-master-bathroom, but for now this is our room.

This room actually had boarders in it in 1927.  One night they came home, started a fire in the coal-burning fireplace, and went to bed.  Somehow during the night a coal popped out onto the rug and started a fire that destroyed the second story (it wasn’t a full second story at the time).  The Brogdons moved down the street to the masonic lodge for a few months while their house was repaired and a full second story was added.

Sorry I didn’t make my bed neater today.  Those sheets hanging out of the comforter are annoying me just looking at them!  All bedding is Pottery Barn, by the way.  I love PB bedding and think it’s worth the splurge–especially the sheets.

If you’ve been following me for awhile you’ll remember in the summer of 2008 that you all helped me decide on drapes for this room.

The rug I found at Lakewood years ago for $10.  I had it as the rug in our entry way until recently, but C. told me it was getting too ratty looking for our foyer.  I loved its “character”, but I agreed that most of our guests would not.  So it found a place on C.’s side of the bed.

I need something cheap to go above the bed so I scoured flea markets, antique stores, and ebay looking for these 1950s Vernon Kilns souvenir plates…on a budget, of course.   I didn’t pay more than $5 each for them.  The Georgia one is my favorite.

C.’s nightstand (on the left) is my favorite piece of furniture.  Heywood Wakefield.  1920s.  Perfect orginal paint.  Original tags underneath.  Perfect condition.  $150 at Lakewood 400 four years ago (that’s a steal in case you don’t know your vintage wicker).  Oh, I am in love with this piece of furniture–almost too much so.

Our lamps are antique alabaster.  I got C.’s at Scotts and mine on ebay.  I’m always on the hunt for more of those.

Here’s my messy nightstand, complete with bedtime books for MM, my latest knitting project on the floor, and a needle and thread.  Wait–you don’t have those things on your nightstand?  I don’t believe it!

Our 1940s mahogany dresser.  Pottery Barn jewelry box with my monogram (thanks, Mom and Dad!).  Target lamps.  Footjoy golf glove (ha!).  A Baby Ben clock.  A mirror made out of an old cabinet door.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a close-up of our fireplace.  Here’s the mantle and pictures above it.  The ones on the wall are from our wedding day and the one on the mantle is of MM when she was ten days old.

Hampton Bay fan.  It’s Tiffany Dragonfly.  It was a housewarming present from my grandmother.

The two “befores” and the two “durings”.  This room actually had an air mattress in it while we restored the house and we spent some weekend nights here–maybe that’s why there weren’t too many pictures I could find??  Not sure.

One of my favorite blogs, Poppies at Play, is having porch tours today on her blog.  I just had to join the party!

These pictures were taken a couple of days ago and totally realistic when it comes to our porch {this means: excuse the mess please!}.  We honestly use our porch as another room which is exactly why so many old southern homes have them–they’re an extension of the house.  We eat so many meals out there that Mary Margaret has a high chair that is stored on the porch.  And oh, we play!  We slide.  We drive our car.  We ride in our wagon.  We push our fake lawn mower.  We blow bubbles.  and more bubbles.  and more bubbles still.

This swing I found at an estate sale in the back of one of the barns.  I got it for $15 and promptly painted it this bright green.  I can’t even begin to tell you how many hours we have spent in this swing the last three years.

Our house has three screen doors.  And I absolutely love them…and so does Coco.  This is the closest she gets to being an outside cat.

I saw this piece of stained glass at Scotts a few years ago and after much oogling my mom got it for me as a Christmas gift.  I love how it matches {kinda} our transom in the parlor.

We have three wicker chairs on the porch (bought from Pier 1 five years ago).  They are perfect for sitting around and talking.

And instead of moving things–you know, MM’s pink tot rod or extension cords–I left them because it’s our real life, haha.  I love my quirky Cypress swan (bought at Scotts).

I actually cleaned off the butcher block and took a picture of it all nice and neat.  Then I realized that was silly and put all our junk back.  Keeping it real, right?

The butcher block came from Scotts.  The cooler was a birthday present for C. and came from a local antiques market.  The painting I picked up for $5 at a local antiques store.  The various vases we found under the house when we were doing some plumbing repair this winter.

And what porch would be complete without a wagon, slide, and picnic table?

If you are stopping by from Poppies at Play, welcome!  Feel free to stay awhile and check out the rest of my tour of home entries from this week.  And tomorrow?  Our master bedroom.

Oh, and happy fifth anniversary to the most wonderful husband in the world, C.  I think to myself daily how very lucky I am to have him in my life.  Five down, a lifetime to go!

Brogdon House has two full baths–one on each floor.  We have a ten-year plan of creating a third full bath–the dream master bath–in what was the boarding house’s kitchenette on the second floor.  The kitchenette currently houses only a sink, a claw-foot tub in pretty rough shape, and Coco’s cat litter box.  Exciting stuff.  Oh, but we have plans–fabulous plans.  I’m sure in the years to come you’ll hear me talking about it ad nauseam.

I’m going to do things a little different today–I’m going to show you the before and during pictures first.  I think you’ll see how far we’ve come in those regards.  Also, please know that since our house is very old the bathrooms are not original.  The downstairs one was tacked on to the house in the early-1920s and the second story was added when they rebuilt that floor after the fire in 1927.  I tell you this to explain why they’re so small and without the “essentials” of today’s bathrooms…you know, silly things like storage for instance.  We did the downstairs bath for $400 and the upstairs bath for $900 (including a new tub, two new sinks, pie safe, and medicine cabinets) which I think is pretty good for what we did.

When we bought the house the downstairs bath had 1950s marbleized paneling and linoleum.  It also had a washing machine in it and two radiators.  One of the two windows was covered up with a medicine cabinet.  But, it also had the original tub and sink.

One of the hardest decisions we encountered with this bathroom was to keep the 1980s shower in the downstairs bathroom.  After much deliberation we decided to get rid of the shower in the downstairs bath (after all, the bedroom down there is just a guest bedroom and a shower isn’t needed) and leave the original knobs for the tub.

Another hard decision was to divide the bathroom and make me a laundry closet.  Y’all know how that turned out–I could only handle the laundry closet for 2 years and this past winter we enlarged it to make me a mudroom, but we still kept this wall.

Three months after we moved in the real work began on this bath and it confirmed something I suspected about renovations–DO RENOVATIONS WHEN YOU ARE *NOT* LIVING IN THE HOUSE IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.  There was so much dust everywhere.

First, we took down the plastic paneling and add tile backer.  We put durock on the floors in preparation for tile.  This was all easier said than done–just ask C. who spent Valentine’s Day Night 2008 doing this.

Then we had men come and laid subway tile behind the tub and hexagonal tile on the floor.  They made it look easy.

I wanted to add a pattern to the floor to make the floor look original…even though it’s totally not.  {We looked underneath the linoleum and all we could find was plywood}

And this is our bathroom today.  As you can see, it’s really MM’s bathroom since this is where she gets her nightly bath.

The shower curtain came from St. Simons–I have no idea of the brand.  The potty is baby bjorn.  The hamper is from Babies R Us.  The little blue thing is so you can sit on your knees without killing them when MM is in the tub.

The old wash basin I think my mother-in-law found for me–for some reason I can’t remember.  My mother has one we bought at Lakewood ages ago though.

I love the sink and tub.  Never have ever been refinished and it’s amazing to me that they are in such good condition.  {That little orange thing next to the sink is a giraffe toothbrush holder, by the way.}  I bought the neatest antique shaving mirror on ebay for my anniversary tomorrow {Do any of you buy presents for yourself for holidays?  That way I always get what I want!} that I’m going to hang to the side of the window.  I hate how currently there is no mirror for you to check your reflection.

I love collecting old gesso mirrors.  My goal is to fill the bathroom with them above the wainscoting (the wainscoting goes up to about six feet so really all they do is reflect light)…so far I’ve only found three.  I could have found more, of course–they’re everywhere on ebay, but I like mine cheap–very cheap.

The chandelier in this bathroom was originally in the front hall, but it was just too small for that space to me.  It fits perfectly in this bathroom.

This is the upstairs bathroom.  When we bought the house the water had been turned off for 48 years.  It was painted peach and black.  ’Nuff said.

Another dilemma for me–since I love to keep as many of the original fixtures as possible in Brogdon House–was with what to do with this sink and radiator.  The sink was tiny and the radiator huge.  Finally we decided to nix both.  I still have the sink in the carriage house and would eventually like to use it on the back porch to wash messy faces and hands after playing.

The clawfoot tub that was in this bathroom was five feet long, but that was too long.  I found this four footer at Scotts and had it refinished.  Here it is after the refinishing sitting in our living room waiting to be carried upstairs.  We put the original tub in the kitchenette and it will be the tub in our future master bath.

We decided to do two pedestal sinks that would look appropriate for the house.  Like my sticky notes?  That was how I told the plumbers where to put the sinks and the electricians to put the outlets.

Durock on the floors to get ready for the tile floor.

This was super cheap tile we got at Home Depot for $1.69/square foot.  We bought a ton of white and a little bit of black.  We cut the black diamonds out and then put them between each section, if that makes sense.  I think it looks pretty good for a budget bath redo.

The floor is down, the plumbing is studded, and the plaster is fixed.

The tub and toilet is in.  The tub actually lost half a foot on the trip up the stairs.  Thankfully my cousin is an expert welder and he soldered it the night it broke.

And here it is today.  And here is MM trying to put one of my headbands on.

That chandelier I got at a local antiques store for $30.  I had our electrician look at it and it didn’t even need to be rewired.  Score.

I don’t know how many people out there have a claw-foot tub, but it is horrible trying to find a curtain to go all the way around.  So I used two ‘Nina’ (Pottery Barn) style shower curtains.

The wicker fish basket is Pottery Barn that I got for a steal at the outlets last fall.  It holds all of MM’s bath toys.

The rug is Neiman Marcus.  I have two of them and change them out when one needs to be washed.  Clearly I’ll be switching the mats tomorrow!

The medicine cabinets are invaluable in our tiny-no-storage bathroom.  We got them somewhere online, but I forgot where.

The towels and holders are Pottery Barn.

The little green wicker basket beside my sink holds all my hair accessories–hair dryer and straightener.  It was like a $5 steal at a flea market years ago.

Little Miss trying to get into the pie safe that holds a bunch of “fun” things.  Thankfully she has not figured out how to open it just yet.  The pie safe was a gift from my parents when we moved into Brogdon House and we bought it at a local antiques shop.  I think they felt sorry for us that we had absolutely no storage in this bathroom.

The little potty was C.’s mothers.

On top of the pie safe are glass containers from Pottery Barn.  I love the etched one with our monogram the best.  The painting is an artist rendering of me in my wedding dress from All About the Dress.  I only wish I looked like the model in the drawing! haha

And here she is again looking out over the backyard.  She has figured out how to work the plantation shutters lately and loves looking outside.

I wasn’t sure if I should call today “the nursery” or “Mary Margaret’s room”.  When does a nursery turn into a child’s bedroom?  Hmmmm…

I took these photos right after MM woke up this morning…at *8*.  Ahhh, I love how my baby loves sleep.  She totally takes after C. and me on that one.  But I digress.

When I started planning MM’s nursery {when I was 10 weeks} I didn’t care if she was a boy or girl–I wanted blue for everything.  In fact, when we restored the house in ’07 (and had already been trying for five months at that point) I called the front bedroom “the nursery” so often that people kept asking when we were due and I would say, ‘Oh, I mean the FUTURE nursery’.  We painted it blue then so when we did get pregnant eight months later that was already done.  I say all this to say, I’m not really a “pink person”.  I don’t think a little girl’s room needs to be all pink or purple to be feminine or cute–sometimes blue can be just as precious and girly.

MM, with her cup of prune juice and in her monkey pajamas, says, ‘Welcome to my room!’

The drapes in this room are a very thick linen with black-out fabric for the lining which is great since this room has four windows.

The rug is Pottery Barn and a gift from C.’s family.

This chifferobe was my grandmother’s when she was a child.  When I got it as a kid it had sat in the family’s chicken coop for years before we had it refinished.  When you live an old house chifferobes, armories, bureaus, and pie safes are all very important since you have very little closet space.

The wicker rocker was mine as a child.  The horse was a gift from Mimi and Pops long before she was born.

This armoire I bought at an antique market when I was in high school.  It was in my bedroom, then our dining room at our last house, and now in MM’s bedroom.  It holds anything from shoes to bloomers to books.

The dress that sits above it is my mother’s.

The little leather chest we got at a Kirkland’s going out of business sale last fall for $20.  It is a lifesaver and holds all of MM’s stuffed animals.  On top sits an afghan MM’s godmother’s (and my best friend) grandmother crocheted for her and her bright pink microwave that she plays.with.all.the.time.and.never.stops.  {I hear that “DING!” in my sleep now.}

Her dresser was the last thing we found for the nursery.  We looked forever.  And thankfully we found it the week before I went on bedrest or we probably still wouldn’t have one.  My mom and I found it buried (seriously) under a pile of furniture at Scotts.  I saw one of the knobs poking through and just started digging.  In its former life it was a sideboard/buffet, obviously, but it also works so well for a dresser and there’s a ridiculous amount of storage inside.

Above it is a framed dress that was my mother’s.  I also have C.’s mother’s dress framed, my grandmother’s bonnet, and my mother’s play dress that my great-grandmother made her.

A month ago I decided it was time to take out MM’s rocker since I have not had to rock her since last summer (so sad!).  I thought this spot in front of her windows would be the perfect place to have a tea party one day.  The table was mine as a child.  These chairs came from the Metrolina in Charlotte, as well as the linens.  The lamp is an old whale oil container that was made into a lamp.  The stuffed chicken I made.  She also has books and a picture of her great-grandfather in high chair that she loves to carry around and kiss.

I promise the door to her messy closet was closed, but a certain Miss Bird opened it, as well as her dresser doors.  Her crib is the Pottery Barn sleigh crib.  I loved it and its super easy up-and-down side, but I didn’t dig its $700 price tag.  I found this one on Craigs List for $200 *including* a Sealy mattress.  The bedding is custom and features blue and brown toile.  I know that I should have taken the bumper out long ago, but as you can see in the next picture, MM doesn’t bother it at all and it’s still in like-new condition.

The picture above the crib is a page from a giant Dick and Jane book from the 50s that I found at the Metrolina.

This is how MM sleeps–surrounded by animals, her favorite minky blanket, and her favorite book.  I made this little pillowcase for her over spring break–see, she DOES have some pink in her room!

And the before and during pictures:

The only before picture I have–this room was the blue room upstairs.  Blue walls, blue ceiling, blue trim, blue radiator, and blue carpet.   …oh, and blue dried flowers too.

Plaster repair.  Fun, fun!

Dad painting the ceilings.  At least these ceilings are “only” ten feet!

All the floors upstairs are heart pine.  They were never stained, but had been painted dark brown.  It was a very intensive process to remove all the paint evenly to uncover the wood underneath.

In other news, MM got her first official haircut today {she’s had two bangs trims, but those don’t count}.  We cut it into a cute little 1920s-ish bob.  When you pull it to the side with a big bow she looks so precious I could just eat her up!

I am sorry to say the following photographs were done in a rushed frenzy as the sun was setting and that some–gasp!–were taken with flash.  You see, today was my last day of work for nine weeks and to celebrate MM, C., and I took a long leisurely swim in my parents’ pool followed by a very yummy Mexican dinner on their patio with my family.  Yes, glorious summer is here and I can’t wait to embrace it.

Without further adieu, here’s our dining room.  Coco the Cat says welcome.  {I promise if you ever come to dinner I’ll make sure to wipe down my table first, haha}

Our dining room table is C.’s great-grandparents’.  It’s made of beautiful tiger oak (the same wood as our hardwood floors downstairs) and last year we had two leaves made.  The sideboard & mirror matches it, but the china cabinet we found at a local antiques store.  It even has the same feet as the sideboard!

The centerpiece is random dried things (like that definition?!) with feathers.  Oh, I love feathers in arrangements!  It sits on an etched mirror I bought for $5 off ebay.  And of course, there’s MM’s little booster seat and placemat.  Currently she’s using her “P” pink placemat.

My china is Villeroy & Boch Audun Ferme.  I love collecting silver serving pieces and these are two of my favorites.  One is dated January 4, 1902.  I’ve always wondered what that date meant.  Baptism?  Wedding?  Birthday?  Anniversary?

The photograph is of our home taken in 1914.  You see, it started off as 1.5-stories.  I have a double drawer chest for my silver and a bowl made of Cypress.

Ahhh…more of my china collections.  I love china, what can I say?  The other patterns I collect are Grindley Malta and  Johnson Brothers Heritage Hall.  {I also have two Christmas patterns I collect, but that is neither here nor there.}  The top shelf houses some of my champagne flutes.  The second shelf also houses bone-handled serving pieces from France C. got me for Christmas in 2008.  The next shelf also has a beaded glass punch bowl from the 40s that I actually use quite a bit.

The painting above the china cabinet is based on this 1920s photograph.  The building on the left was owned by the Brogdons and they were cotton brokers and sold fertilizer.  I bought this painting years before we bought this house.  I think it’s fate that I purchased something that holds such special importance to our home.

This fireplace and mantle matches the parlor.  This room also features two doors that stores my ever-expanding china collection.  I actually took a picture of the inside of one of them, but realized it was in too much disarray for the internet.

Ginger jar and sugar dish of my favorite patterns.  Southern Cooking written by C.’s great-great-aunt, Mrs. S.R. Dull.

We found this high chair in three pieces in the basement.  It was a beautiful stain, but because we had to add some pieces to keep it upright, we painted it red.  The center of the seat is pressed leather in a beautiful pattern.

And finally, my drapes.  I found this fantastic red quail fabric at a flea market years before we found Brogdon House and bought it knowing I would use it in my dining room one day.  Well, I didn’t get enough–these ceilings are 12′+–and my seamstress had to add a coordinating fabric at the bottom.  But I still think it looks good.  These brackets are actually hand-carved pieces of a Belgian 19th-century dresser we bought at an antique shop in Old San Juan that we repurposed into curtain brackets.

Because this room was used for most of our tool storage (and a 1939 stove) during the renovation there are less pictures taken of its progress, and here’s all I got:

Two silly pictures.  Sorry!  This room was originally a dining room and then in the 1960s the family began using it as a living room.  It has a door that connects it to the kitchen so it was just natural for us to make it our dining room too.

Our Parlor

And you know I always keep it real–that’s why C.’s dirt bike boots are laying in the floor because that’s where they sit 99.9% of the time.  Men!

Our parlor has been used as a formal sitting room, a living room, a doctor’s waiting room, and an examination/surgery room over its lifespan.  Today it’s one of the rooms we use the least except at Christmas when we put our Christmas tree in front of the picture window.

Yesterday I showed you this picture.

Here are the details I mentioned.

A Bakelite clock.  Old books.  My baby shower invitation {I actually got to attend my own baby shower–how cool is that?!}

A picture of my great-grandmother, Lennie Thaxton Allen.  An antique abacus.  Lace from C.’s family.  My McCoy wishing well.  An 1850s railroad map of Georgia and Alabama {Atlanta wasn’t even a city yet}.

My grandfather’s WWII Garrison Cap and his spectacles.

C.’s “man chair” with my Georgia pillow.  The framed certificate is Alpharetta High School’s FFA charter from 1932.

Panoramic photographs of Savannah (1950s) and Flamenco Beach, Culebra {Puerto Rico barrier island} in the 1910s.  We’ve been to Culebra twice and it’s amazing to me how similar the island looks now to the above picture.  It hasn’t changed at all.

A Victorian organ I gave C. for Christmas in 2007.  I bought it at a local yard sale.  The stool came off ebay.  The framed map is an 1830s map of Georgia.

My grandparents on their wedding day, Christmas Eve 1949.  A family heirloom mustache cup.

A spool of thread (it belonged to my Aunt Martha)  in a dome that needs some serious cleaning (ha!).

I didn’t get a picture of the drapes in this room.  They’re made of burlap, puddle on the floor, and have French Pleats at the top.  I love when you mix rustic with a more sophisticated room like a parlor–and burlap is just perfect.

A Victrola that my parents had in their home forever.  It still works when you turn the crank {though it sounds so creepy}.

So I keep it closed and have pictures of–who else–Mary Margaret!

We found this drafting table in the rain at a flea market.  My dad refinished it for us.  I’ve been on the hunt for a matching stool for almost three years now.  Gah!

On the mantle we have this beautiful clock my mother got off ebay for me one Christmas.  Unfortunately, it only has the correct time twice a day–3AM and 3PM–and my goal is to have it fixed one day soon.

This right here is what sold me on Brogdon House within the first ten seconds.  I love the stained glass transom.

Two other original fixtures I love of the parlor–the radiator and the summer screen (there’s a matching fireplace, including summer screen, in the dining room).

And what would a tour be without the before and during pictures??

This is how the parlor looked when we bought the house.  The picture doesn’t show it, but the ceilings had been dropped to 8 feet.

The first night we owned the house C. took a hammer to those ceilings.  I will never forget coming home {I was getting my historic preservation masters at night at the time} to find him covered in “black stuff” as he called it.  Turns out it was rat poop–I’ll never forget his shocked face when I told him what was all over him–HA!

When we took down the ceiling we discovered the original color and picture & crown molding.  We decided we had to match the color.

We also discovered some horrible plaster.

My dad hand sanded, primed, and painted ALL of the 12′ ceilings in the house.  I tried one day to help him and I barely could do a 4′ x 4′ area and I was worn out.  He was such a trooper during our whirlwind restoration.

 The first stage of refinishing the hardwood floors.

It was a lot of work to get the room back to its “original” state, but so much fun.  It was one of the less fussier rooms–just a bit of electrical, no plumbing, and already had a heating vent (but no AC).  And I loved this room because it is the first one Miss Eleanor showed us when we came to look at the house.  As they say, ‘It had me at hello’.

My mother recently found Savvy Southern Style and has enjoyed looking at Kim’s beautiful home room-by-room.  That got me to thinking.

I LOVE home tours.  I’ve talked at length about how I go on Rambles (southern old home tours) just so I can see how others live.  I love seeing someones treasured possessions they have on display *and* the story behind them.

So I thought this week–since I only have to work two days–to celebrate summer I would give a mini-home tour of Brogdon House.  With before pictures for the historic home lovers and the stories behind the furniture for the voyeurs like me.

You’ve already seen the living room and mudroom, so here’s the schedule for this week:

Monday – Parlor

Tuesday – Dining Room

Wednesday – Mary Margaret’s Nursery

Thursday – The Bathrooms

Friday – The Master Bedroom

Saturday – The Three Other Bedrooms

(Note: I’m not showing my teeny-tiny-better-than-before-but-still-not-that-great kitchen)

And here’s a little taste of tomorrow’s tour.  This is one of our most prized pieces–a 19th century Scottish piece that we bought at a local antique shop.  C. loves carved things–and this piece features carved lion heads *and* human heads–so he was sold as soon as he saw it.  Inside the cabinet holds some of my favorite possessions.  There is a photograph of my great-grandmother, circa 1905.  There is lace made by C.’s great-grandmother.  A 1920s Bakelite clock I got off ebay that still works if I plug it in (I don’t).  An 1850s map of Georgia I bought at an antique show in Charlotte.  A McCoy Wishing Well.  My grandfather’s Garrison Gap he wore during WWII, as well as his glasses.  My baby shower invitation framed.

For more stay tuned tomorrow.

A week (or was it two? or three?) ago I showed a few photos of our brick walkway, but it wasn’t a picture of the whole thing.  Someone–I can’t remember who, sorry–said they wanted to see the “big picture”.  I snuck out of the house last night after MM went to bed, hence why the curtains are drawn in her bedroom in the photograph, and snapped this picture.

{And I totally have to admit: I did some Photoshopping on half of the grass.  Because of all the Bobcat work we did in the front yard we’re having to reseed the Centipede.  So, this is what the grass will hopefully look like in a couple of months, hehe}

And the second thing.   Unless C. is here I don’t turn the TV on.  Not a biggie, until you start listening to the noises on the baby monitor.  I know how they pick up other people’s conversations or radio stations–my parents’ picks up this Mandarin Chinese radio station and it is SO weird…but this is not that.

Here at Brogdon House we have the sounds of footsteps, chairs sliding across the floor, fingers tapping on a table.  Strange stuff.

It seems “Mr. Boarder” is back…and in MM’s room.  So, uhm, yeah, if you could not tell my grandmother that would be swell.  Because she already thinks we’re nuts for living in a “haunted house” as it is and if I told her it them whatever it is was in MM’s room…well, she’d freak out.

{For all the new people you can read about our ghosts here, here, here, and here}