Packing for a Group Home

What do you bring to a group home?

Your own bed with your own mattress, pillow and favorite quilt.

All of your dolls, especially the Disney dolls, because they are soft and good to hug and listen to everything you say.

You’ll also bring two shoe organizers because they can hang on your bed frame and hold all of your dolls. It’s good to have friends near you when you’re sleeping.

Your clothes of course. But you’ll need something to keep them organized because there isn’t enough space in your new room for your wardrobe. Closet organizers like hanging cubbies will work great, especially if you don’t like drawers. Dresser drawers are hard to open.

Books. A room isn’t comfortable without your books. You’ll need to bring your bookcase to hold all of them. Books are important.

One chair to sit in beside your bookcase so you can read your books comfortably.

Pictures of your friends. These include all of the Disney princesses you’ve met because they are your friends too. The pictures will be hung on the wall next to your bed so you can look at them every day.

Lots of pillows so you can lounge on your bed and talk to your dolls and read your books in your own, special place that is just the way you like it.

Hope. Hope is important. Hope that living in this new house will be a good thing and you’ll make lots of new friends, even though you’ll miss your old room and your mom for a while. Actually, you’ll always miss your mom. But that’s okay because your mom will visit a lot and you’ll go out to lunch together and then the library. Mom likes books, too.

Your own toothbrush.