after a weekend of hard work (especially on the part of my poor dad), the baby's room is completely finished. psych!
i wish we had gotten closer to finishing. painting and decorating one room is a lot more work than i had originally thought. i remember telling mom that i dont know what she was worried about and that we would finish on saturday. i feel like in the past we have finished even bigger projects in shorter time periods....but alas, it was not to be. maybe it was because i was basically no help in my present state....or that i didnt have everything picked out ahead of time...either way, there is still so much to do.
so i just wrote a bunch of boring paragraphs about our misadventures and what we ended up finishing or not finishing...but it was boring. so i erased them. i am going to attempt to abbreviate it!
a comedy of errors:
everyone but me worked hard painting but because of the original dark blue underneath there are still tons of touchups needed around the molding. we did not decide, after many discussions with the lowe's staff and debate at home, what type of window treatments/blinds/shutters to put in the room. i got a call friday saying the furniture store from which we bought the crib went out of business and we have a window of time on saturday to pick up our stuff. said stuff was not all together and 4 screws were missing from the crib! while trying to carry the 500 pound (maybe?) dresser inside, the legs ended up scraped from trying to maneuver it on a dolly. almost every time we left the house, Scout would find some hidden food items, or just raid the trash and strew it about the house. he even ate my hot/cold casserole cover! mom broke a decorative cutting board! dad spent all day sunday hacking down the jungle growth in our yard. it was a busy, busy weekend and made me realize how much more we have to do. i guess i was hoping that after all of this work i would be able to take some cute pictures of the finished nursery. i know mom was really hoping to be able to as well.
so here is a partial list of what i think we need to do for nursery decor:
find something in the way of window treatments or blinds needs to be chosen
decide if some shelving might be necessary to help organize the changing area
i need a mobile!
maybe find one of those tray things to put on top of the dresser to hold the changing pad...wonder if that is necessary?
move benson's clothes from that closet and into the third bedroom closet (as soon as i get that closet rebuilt!)
decide what i want to hang on the walls
find a glider- i am partial to the ones that are all upholstered...
get the terrible stain left from benson's hardrive (do computers create exhaust? it looks like it left behind the ash of 50 packs of cigs!)
decide what to do with benson's computer and desk
find a rug to really tie the room together, man
have a baby
that seems like it should do it!
here are some photos from the weekend. guess i have been negligent about posting lately. here i am 28.5 weeks
just noticed i change a lot between past and present tense while writing. i am a terrible grammarian. sorry mebbie.
i wish we had gotten closer to finishing. painting and decorating one room is a lot more work than i had originally thought. i remember telling mom that i dont know what she was worried about and that we would finish on saturday. i feel like in the past we have finished even bigger projects in shorter time periods....but alas, it was not to be. maybe it was because i was basically no help in my present state....or that i didnt have everything picked out ahead of time...either way, there is still so much to do.
so i just wrote a bunch of boring paragraphs about our misadventures and what we ended up finishing or not finishing...but it was boring. so i erased them. i am going to attempt to abbreviate it!
a comedy of errors:
everyone but me worked hard painting but because of the original dark blue underneath there are still tons of touchups needed around the molding. we did not decide, after many discussions with the lowe's staff and debate at home, what type of window treatments/blinds/shutters to put in the room. i got a call friday saying the furniture store from which we bought the crib went out of business and we have a window of time on saturday to pick up our stuff. said stuff was not all together and 4 screws were missing from the crib! while trying to carry the 500 pound (maybe?) dresser inside, the legs ended up scraped from trying to maneuver it on a dolly. almost every time we left the house, Scout would find some hidden food items, or just raid the trash and strew it about the house. he even ate my hot/cold casserole cover! mom broke a decorative cutting board! dad spent all day sunday hacking down the jungle growth in our yard. it was a busy, busy weekend and made me realize how much more we have to do. i guess i was hoping that after all of this work i would be able to take some cute pictures of the finished nursery. i know mom was really hoping to be able to as well.
so here is a partial list of what i think we need to do for nursery decor:
find something in the way of window treatments or blinds needs to be chosen
decide if some shelving might be necessary to help organize the changing area
i need a mobile!
maybe find one of those tray things to put on top of the dresser to hold the changing pad...wonder if that is necessary?
move benson's clothes from that closet and into the third bedroom closet (as soon as i get that closet rebuilt!)
decide what i want to hang on the walls
find a glider- i am partial to the ones that are all upholstered...
get the terrible stain left from benson's hardrive (do computers create exhaust? it looks like it left behind the ash of 50 packs of cigs!)
decide what to do with benson's computer and desk
find a rug to really tie the room together, man
have a baby
that seems like it should do it!
here are some photos from the weekend. guess i have been negligent about posting lately. here i am 28.5 weeks
just noticed i change a lot between past and present tense while writing. i am a terrible grammarian. sorry mebbie.
love this picture...except for my puffy face! but mom looks good! i love pics with the hand on my belly! 
mom wanted to take a picture of dad's "baby" in his lap....he kept saying he cant believe his baby is having a baby.
all of the mess of changing rooms behind us...if you looks closely you can see paint in benson's hair! not that i should be talking about the state of anyone else's hair!
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