Family Room: Leave It Be 

In other words, it's The Room Next to the Kitchen, closest to Mommy

Family Room: Leave It Be 
In other words, it’s The Room Next to the Kitchen, closest to Mommy
The Multipurpose Room

The next room we want to share with you, dear readers, may be nameless in architectural blueprints, but is imperative to almost every Jewish household: the multipurpose room.

In our home, the multipurpose room acts as a living room, dinette, breakfast nook, playroom, office, homework room, music room, art studio, gym, wrestling ring, and during those fun-filled months of Covid, both shul and school.

In other words, it’s The Room Next to the Kitchen, closest to Mommy.

Oh, there are other rooms in the house. But why eat at the kitchen island when you can make cereal bowl rings on the coffee table, with Fruity Pebbles scattered across for that perfect accent of color? Why go onto the porch to blow bubbles when you can jump on the couch to do so, leaving sticky water stains on the suede? And why on earth would you play with a 750-piece Playmobil fireboat set in the privacy of your room, when you can spill it across the carpet and then yell at any sibling who moves even one menchie?

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