drool fest...

I've been bad and haven't posted in like, a billion days. Okay, so more like a week, but same difference. I suppose it doesn't really matter, because not a whole lot has been going on. I was feeling sick the majority of last week and even today I'm still not feeling 100%. But let's see.... what have we been up to lately?

Went to the baby doctor last week and doc says all is well with the little Bug (that's my nickname I finally settled on, "Bug") and according to the doctor, he is measuring exactly where he needs to be at. So I'm not quite sure where the NP got her "two weeks bigger" number from, but apparently everything is going according to plan for a November 12 baby. That doesn't mean that we still don't have a hunch though. Hubs even said the other day at our friends house, "We're gonna have a Halloween party and just wait, we'll either be in labor or he will already be here by then!" Yep. That's my guess. He'll be a Halloween-ish baby. Which would be okay with me, I love Halloween!

I'm still trying my hardest to wait ever so patiently for Babies R Us to call and inform me that my nursery furniture is here. Because let's be honest, it's about time! It has officially been over a week and I'm really hoping it doesn't take the full 14 days that they quoted. Because I'm super impatient about these kinds of things... And since I don't have my furniture yet, I haven't even touched my projects (the Name Project and the Alphabet Project) because I need to see how the room looks with the crib and dresser in it before I can proceed.

So, I can hear you asking, what is it that you have been doing? Well, lately, as I'm trying to tackle the bigger things on my to do list, it seems that the little tedious, "unimportant" things have been multiplying tenfold. So in all my "sickness" and being lazy, I've gotten a head start on vanquishing those pesky little tedious projects. Like getting the calendar updated, and getting a new bill organizer so I can easily keep track of what's been paid and what I need to file; and I stole Sherry from Young House Love's idea and got a sweet little binder to keep all my magazine tear outs in (tear outs from decorating and home magazines that I really like, paint ideas, furniture, etc) so they don't end up all over the place; and I started cleaning out the junk closet in the boy's room. (Yes, their room is technically the "master suite" and it has two closets, so, of course, one has been designated the junk closet) I got all of the papers and whatnot filed away neatly, and started getting rid of stuff - i.e. take to Goodwill, try and Craigslist, maybe Freecycle. And that's actually about all I've gotten done. I know, I'm lazy, I just haven't had much energy to do anything lately. However, we did get the last of the holiday decorations, like my random Christmas and Halloween stuff, pulled out of the junk closet and tucked away neatly in the attic. Along with some other shtuff that the Hubs cleaned out of the garage and put up there, like old camping equipment and old school books (but only until I get my bookshelves up in the front room, then we'll have some sort of little library started).

And besides putting stuff in the attic, I've been having a major drool fest over certain things I would like for the house. I think I might just start a little "wish list" for gift ideas like my birthday, Christmas, etc. But just to give you an idea, here's what I've been drooling over lately:

This fabulous, shiny little leaf bowl from Z Gallerie... it needs a new home on my kitchen table.

And I do realize that it's only August, but fall is my absolute favorite time of year, and these little beaded pumpkins and gourds (also from Z Gallerie) are to die for. By the way, if you love fall and Halloween as much as I do, then Z Gallerie is for sure the place to check out for decorations. Their Halloween deco is AH.MAZE.ING. Not cheapo, plastic, little kiddy decor, hardcore awesome "grown up" decor, which I love love LOVE.

And lately I've been trying to find a new bedding set; I want to redo the bedroom and lighten it up just a little bit. I really want to keep the blue-ish theme, but more of a teal-ish blue? I'm not sure, but what I do know is that I have found several bedding sets that I am in love with:

This darling little set from West Elm would look awesome with our existing dark chocolate brown blackout curtains (which are expensive, so I really don't want to have to replace them) and it's 100% organic cotton!

And of course, they would have just added this lovely little set, which looks awesome with their choice of blue!

And there are many, many more things that I would love to have, but you'll have to just check out the wish list page, once I get it updated, which is one of the bajillion other things on my "Tedious To Do" list, along with getting the site updated... I know, scold me....

oh happy day!

Okay folks, here it is... late post tonight and man, has it been a busy day...

Started out the day snagging some awesome home decor magazines at Half Price Books for just a couple bucks - why subscribe/pay news stand price when you can get them for $1.98 after someone turns them in?  Or how about for 50 freaking cents if they're two months old?! That's right, 50 cents, and I do not mind reading a magazine that is two months old.

I had a billion and one things going on at work today. It was just one thing, after another, after another... you get the picture, it was just one of those days;

Stopped in at Archivers at lunch time to get some supplies for a nursery project (more on that tomorrow) and walked out with some of the cutest paper ever. And so many good ideas for future projects;

Momma (aka G-Mom) stopped by my work and we talked about Mason and how huge I am (more like, how huge he is) and family and other stuff for a bit;

Went to Babies R Us with the mother-in-law (aka Nana) and ordered Mason's crib and dresser/changing table combo... now I just have to be super patient (which I am NOT) for "up to 14 days" and wait for them to come in from the warehouse. They look like this, except we'll have our cute boyish turtle bedding in there:

 Had a delicious dinner with some of Hubs' family - where the first thing one of the cousins (who we haven't really seen since before we went on vacation) says yells is "OH MY GOD! LOOK HOW BIG YOU ARE!" in regards to my ever-so-rapidly growing baby belly. Yes, I know he's huge;

Came home from dinner and started working on said project, yay! I promise, I'll fill you in on the good details tomorrow.

And now it's bedtime, because we have a baby doctor appointment tomorrow morning. Where hopefully they will tell me that my actual due date is something like October 24th or something around there.

oh pregnancy...

I have officially gotten to the point in pregnancy where I am miserable all day, every day. I hear you saying, "Silly girl, you still have three more months of this!" to which I respond, "Oh dear, I know. *sad face* I knooooowwwwww." I don't sleep anymore, I feel like a zombie when I wake up and driving to work is scary sometimes because all I want to do is just close my eyes. I can't breath out of my nose... heck, this monster baby has been squishing my lungs for so long now, I don't remember what it's like to take a big, deep breath (regardless of whether it comes out of my nose OR my mouth!). Everything hurts; especially my back, my hips, my ribs, and oh my abdominal muscle hate me every time I sneeze or cough... or breathe, for that matter. And my feet? Ugh. They start to hurt now after about ten seconds of standing on them. Lucky me, I can sit down and still get most of my job done while in said sitting position. And this little boy of mine still has three more months of growing and weight gaining to do. I don't mind the kicking so much anymore, actually, it's rather humorous to lay in bed at night and pull up my shirt and watch him dance around in there. It's one of my favorite things to do now =D

On a silly, cute side note, baby M totally recognizes his daddy's voice. In the midst of all the painting craziness last week, I plopped down on the couch while waiting for a coat to dry. M started kicking as soon as I laid down (mad, I suppose, that I had quit moving) but settled down after a couple minutes. So, about 15 minutes of closed-eye resting go by when Hubs walks into the room, asking one of the cats "Where is your mommy at? (at which point he sees me laying on the couch and says) Oh! There she is! What's baby mommy doing?" To which baby M is thinking, "Oh! That's my daddy!! I hear my daddy!!" and started kicking like crazy. So stinking cute. Look, he's not even here yet, and he's making mommy smile because of something cute he did. That made my day.

Anyways, back on track here.... I'm feeling miserable but I'm just glad that I have things to keep me busy and to look forward to for the next three months or so. Like all the cute nursery stuff I need to get done. Which is exciting because I want to make a lot of it. Like some really cute black and white cards like these from Wee Gallery to put near his crib to help stimulate eye development (because the contrast is good for a babies' eyes to focus on):

And then I saw this absolutely adorable alphabet garland (on Etsy) for little boys and was totally inspired to make my own (cause I'm crafty like that):

And then I just typed something like "alphabet card" in Etsy and came up with all these splendid ideas:

 How cute would it be to make one of these adorable fabric pennant strings to match his nursery colors? I've seen a couple how-to's on paper ones, but fabric would be so cute, too!

And what are the odds that this personalized alphabet name listing happens to say Mason?!?! OMG.

Last, but definitely not least, this clever little take on an alphabet print is to die for. I have been contemplating just painting his name on the wall above his crib, but something like this would oh so much cuter, and educational to boot!

But that's all the nursery fun for now. I know it's only Monday and I don't have much to do here, but I suppose I should probably get back to work.

let the fun begin...

Okay, so I'm new at this whole blogging thing, but I've decided to give it a whirl, simply to give me something to do; or more like, I have a billion things to do (more on that later), but I wanted a place to kind of chronicle all the big stuff we're going through right now. So where to begin? A little about me, I suppose. I just got married, like, just a little over a month ago, to my best friend. AND we have a baby boy on the way... in THREE MONTHS and we haven't even started the nursery I just started working on the nursery last night. So I suppose this blog is going to document all of the fun we are going to have working on the house, starting with the nursery. We are living in my hubs' house (that he bought back in 2001) so it's already our home, just not our "family" home yet; and as I've been doing all this research and internet and blog scouring for inspiration for baby M's room, I've decided I want to redo everything... and I mean EVERYthing. Realistically, we are going to be in this house for at least another five years, so I might as well have my fun with it, right?

So that's what this blog is going to be. I just decided for sure right now. (Yes, I'm a little bit crazy, but hey, I'm six months pregnant, it comes with the territory) It's my (or our) little way of documenting our transformation from our current home status to a little family home status. Starting with our son's nursery. And I promise I'll be back tomorrow with my massive "nesting"/"just because I feel like redoing it" to-do list and the start of the nursery.