I've got to say: I'm having a lot of fun building up this nursery from scratch. You've seen pictures of the room, so you know that we really do have a blank canvas to work with. Since we're waiting a little longer on most of the bigger purchases (the crib, rocker etc) I've been able to really focus my attention on the little details - and HELLO! the little details are often what make a room!! The art, the colors, the textures... I'm dreaming of how they will all come together.










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I wasn't even yet pregnant when I began day dreaming about what the nursery would look like. From the moment we moved into this house in October 2011 this room was kept empty, knowing it was being reserved for a baby's room. When were trying to get pregnant I once found myself sitting in the middle of the empty room touching my stomach and whispering aloud to no one in particular: please. please. And someone listened.

We have a long wait as of yet - at least it feels that way right now - but we will need all of the time we can get in order to not only prepare in the sense of buying a crib, researching daycares, etc, but also to wrap our heads around the fact that we are going to be parents.

To be honest, there's probably going to be a lot of baby talk on the blog for the next foreseeable future. I thought that one of the most fun and exciting ways to start off would be to show you the before photos of the room.

Well friends, the news is out.

I have a little person under my shirt who is expected sometime around March 27, 2013.

I've been doing a lot of thinking since my last post about opening up more and being real with myself. Thank you everyone for your comments; they have all given me plenty to think about.


I've spent the past couple weeks thinking about my childhood and everything since (if I'm doing this at 28 imagine what I will be like when I hit the big 3-0....), and while I can't yet quite put into words how I'm feeling about everything I have made some realizations, mostly about changes I would like to make in my life. Are you ready?

1. Cooking - My mother is a great cook, something that I now realize I took for granted growing up. These days I think often about her homemade soups that she would throw together with anything leftover in the fridge, or the zucchini bread she would make and the way it made the kitchen smell for hours. I'm not a bad cook, but I'd like to be more like my mother some day in the sense that she could look in the cupboards and whip up a great dinner with whatever we had on hand.
2. Sewing - Again, my mother is a whiz at sewing and yes, looking back I wish that I had taken advantage of learning from her while I could because now I think of how many little projects I would love to take on (I still dream of making black and white striped curtains) but can't because I don't know how to sew. Of course, there is still plenty of time to learn, and I intend on doing so.
3. Photographing Life - I know that I talk about this one a lot and there's a reason it keeps coming up; I start and then it fades off. I want to be able to look back one day and see not the big moments (birthdays, etc) but what my every day looked like; a new recipe that I tried, the bedroom with it's new grey accent wall, dinners outside - I want to remember it all.
4. Family - I moved away from all of my family friends in January 2011 and I would be lying if I didn't say that some days are a struggle. I've been telling myself that I need to take advantage of the new family that I have here more, and I am determined to do just that. I mean, I always wondered what it would be like to have a sister, and now I have one just a 15 minute drive away. And maybe I miss my dad tremendously (because I'm a total daddy's girl) but I have another father just across town to visit with. I need to accept that it's okay to lean on them as if they were the family I was born in to.

These are not dramatic changes, in fact they are changes that I can make little by little, day by day which somehow in my mind makes them more easily attainable.

So here I go.