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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, 9 Months of Awesome | 6 Comments
Until this weekend, we had done little work on the nursery, no more than what we did about this time last year when I was trying to distract myself from the adoption wait by buying cutesy baby things.
Then, when we thought G was going to be our son, we squeezed the nursery stuff to […]
Friday, September 11th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, Ooh, Pretty! | 6 Comments
We still haven’t had a definite answer from G’s dad, but things are looking promising. G’s mom spoke with him and answered all his questions, and he said it all sounded good. I think he is probably just overwhelmed and taken aback and needs a little time to process this.
So we are still cautiously […]
Friday, March 13th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Ooh, Pretty! | 2 Comments
This has been a week of improvements - some small and easy, some large and complicated, all making life just a little better.
1. The 50-gallon water heater. We wanted a tankless, but that didn’t work out, so we bought a 50-gallon water heater to replace our broken 40-gallon one. This one is bigger but […]
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, Ooh, Pretty! | 8 Comments
One evening not so long ago, two gigantic cardboard boxes arrived on our doorstep. We sprang eagerly from our seats on the couch, because we’d been anticipating the arrival of the crib and changing table from the faraway land of Tar-jay.
D turned on XM satellite radio’s 60’s on 6 channel, and we set to […]
Friday, February 6th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, Shopping Disease | 6 Comments
The room that we’ve been tentatively calling the nursery still looks more like a catch-all than a space a child would want to call his/her own. Until now, I’ve avoided even thinking about decorating it as a nursery, because I was afraid having a room all set up with crib and curtains and whatnot […]
Friday, November 7th, 2008
posted by K | filed under Bedrooms, Organization | 13 Comments
After doing the treadmill first thing this morning (by first thing, I mean 9:45 … I am thankfully back to my schedule of staying up till 2 a.m. and waking up at 9-something), I channeled that hey-I’m-up-off-the-couch-doing-something energy into part 557 of cleaning up and organizing our pigsty of a bedroom. That involved the […]