More on Marriage

Madeleine has made yet another amendment to her marriage plans, so now I will no longer be housing her as a married adult.

ME: Madeleine, why do you feel like you want to live with Mommy when you grow up?
MADELEINE: Uh, well, Mama.  Now I'm just gonna live REGULAR, because...I want to marry SIBLINGS.

Oh.  That's so much better than her old plan.  Now not only will she be marrying Julia, but apparently some other brother or sister unknown to Ethan and I.  It's going to be like sister-wives, without the husband!


Julia is still not keen on Madeleine's plan to get married.  She's pretty content to have her independence from her little sister, especially when it comes to bedrooms.  While Julia is happy to share a room with Auntie Shannon, she definitely takes pride in her bedroom being her OWN, apart from Madeleine.  

You can see how much she loves her special bedroom in the following project she made at school; her class is learning about keys and maps, and Julia designed the following map of her bedroom:

Thank goodness we now have a map of Julia's closet-sized bedroom.  I'm not sure anyone would have known how to get from one end of the room to the other without a guide!

Madeleine did not draw her own bedroom, but she did make the following completely disturbing pictures as a gift to Julia:

Crazy woman with broken neck, surrounded by gleaming golden bladed knives

(Or, as Madeleine explained, "it's ELSA from Frozen!")

LSD trip to the land of magical rainbows

Dead floating corpse


Way to woo your intended, Madeleine!  Now there's NO WAY Julia will turn down your marriage proposal!  I think you're gonna get to marry siblings after all!