Operation: Make a Nursery

Porch and I headed out shopping yesterday afternoon with a few friends and while I was decidedly over the entire process, I am pleased to tell you we found a set that met all of the criteria and it will be delivered next weekend. We got home and enlisted the help of said friends to relocate the guest bed to the front sunroom. We chose this location to be the "new" guest room because it has doors and heat and lots and lots of windows which creates an amazing cross-breeze in the summer (man do I miss summer).

The new guest bedroom! Ready for its first guests: My parents!!!

This room looks totally empty now... and it's a little overwhelming to
think about what it will look like in a week.

Now that it's all moved, Porch and I are kind of having this realization that we'd like to purchase a large rug for the nursery and ideally have it down before the furniture arrives (in t-minus 7 days). We'll be out and about today looking for the right piece to add. We also have big plans to fix the leaning tower of Ikea.

And we plan to move the dresser to the craft room (attached to the poop bathroom) after my nesting kicks in and I clean/organize the hell out of it. Maybe if I put up these shameful pictures, I will feel pressured to get the clutter cleaned up!

In my defense, some of those buckets are already designated as donation-ready
and we'll be making a trip to drop those off this week.

This is the clutter left in the nursery (including the Ikea dresser)

Today is going to be a busy day & I'm excited to see how the apartment changes in the coming weeks!!

xoxo

Comments

It is not 1950; I do not vacuum in pearls.

Hi, it's me - I know it's been a while, but I've been deep inside that bubble I mentioned when everything first happened in November 2020 and I am starting to emerge having done some serious healing and navigating within the trauma of being a suicide survivor and a sole parent. This has nothing to do with that though. I'm dumping this thought here because I need it documented: You know how the conservative crowd tends to use "Well I don't have any children, why should I help pay for the schools?" and "People are just too lazy to work, I don't know why we need social services to help people pay for their child care and food?" I'm noticing those are the same voices I hear in restaurants complaining that there are no servers. No bartenders. No one available to change their oil or to do other trade work. And no one to watch their children. The CEO of the company I work for posted a big response about how child care is the gatekeeper to folks...

Momma K

It's true. I love my mom. She's my best source of advice & wisdom, even though it took me roughly 20 years to figure that out. I just wanted to take a quick second and thank her for all that she's done for me and especially for the things she didn't do for me. =) I wouldn't be the person I am today without her. Love you mom! We're pretty fabulous, no?

That time we sold our house.

Porch, Charlotte, and I are excited to share that we are moving! If you follow us on Facebook, you know that we put our house up for sale on Thursday. By Saturday afternoon, we had 3 offers on the table and we accepted! I can't even begin to express our shock, our joy, our excitement, and our nervousness about the months ahead. We put an offer on a house closer to my new job as Charlie attends the center and being closer means that Porch can drop her off on my early shift (6am-3pm) and pick her up on my late shift (9:30-6:30pm) so Charlie isn't spending all of her waking hours in child care. We're ridiculously excited, yet cautious. The new house has 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms and is begging for a series of updates. There are a number of projects that await us but we're so excited to call this new place home and to make it into something that's truly ours. A home we can grow into. A home we can share with our family over the years and create ...

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