The boring details of a busy few weeks

Well, I am definitely in the third trimester. The last week or two have been really busy since my nesting urge has been in full force. Living in a small two bedroom apartment with a sun room for Nate's office and the complication of having a cat (with a litter box that has to go somewhere) makes it interesting to plan for a baby. So I started with cleaning out the two bedroom closets and the laundry closet to make as much room for storing and rearranging/relocating stuff as possible. The nursery had also been home to a very large table full of my paint supplies and other items which have seen been organized and relocated to my rather small desk. My parents generously provided two shelves so that we could actually get Nate's office organized. The biggest project was the large, torn-up yard sale dresser that my parents gave us for Nate since I monopolize our dresser. It's in the nursery because it was too ugly and to go with our pretty bedroom furniture. But of course I didn't want to have all my cute nursery stuff and then a torn up old dresser. So with the help of my dad (meaning he did most of the work), we redid it last weekend.

Here are the before pictures.

The top had this really thin piece of decorative fake wood that had gotten all torn up.
Because it was fake wood, the only option was to remove it and HOPE that what was underneath was usable. After much deliberation, we went ahead and ripped it off...slowly and mostly tiny piece by tiny piece. Then we had to sand it down, but fortunately there was usable wood underneath. Dad, with a little help from me, then put on two coats of primer and three coats of the green paint we went with.

Here's the final product: 

 




















Just a small improvement!!!

After that was done and my art supplies put away, I put together the swing/rocker, my super comfy glider, and a 6-cube shelving unit. I'm also making the crib skirt to go with the cute curtains my mom made so I painstakingly cut out all of the quilt squares for it and pinned them together. Now I just have to sew it... I also pre-washed all the diapers (what a pain!), registered for CPR class and the hospital tour, and called a pediatrician for an interview. I still have a ton left on my "Izzy list," but I feel like I'm making progress and at least have a nursery rather than a storage unit now! Can't wait to get it all done and post pictures! I also put the final touches on my baby registry and I'm determined not to look at it again, at least until after the first shower! (Since people have been asking, we're registered at Target with some stuff available online only but most of it in stores).

Unfortunately, one of the negatives of nesting is that I have little interest or energy left over for other things...like my Corp. Finance course or cooking. The little energy I have has mostly gone into painting. I finally finished two paintings for my mom that have been mostly done for months and I started a really big city scene that I'm excited about. So I'll have to try to strike a bit of a balance. May is going to be crazy with two baby showers, two mommy classes, the hospital tour, birthdays and Mother's day, doctor appointments, finishing the last few weeks of my class, and trying to finish the nursery but most of it should at least be fun!

I got the good news that I most likely have a part-time office job. I'll go in this week to see what the job entails and meet the boss but it sounds like just what I need so we're very thankful for that!

Nate has also been staying super busy between his normal full time job which has a lot going on right now, working hard to try to get this tablet deal, helping me around the house, and trying to deal with my third-trimester mood swings. My prayer is that by the time June comes, we'll have a lot of this stuff out of the way and have a week or two to catch up on sleep before Izzy makes an appearance.