Some Progress with the Boys' Room

This past weekend, as Eric tore up the floor in one of our rental properties, I did some projects for the boys' room.  I had to split my time between homework and projects, so not much was accomplished, but any progress is good progress in my book.

Several months ago, I found a children's book that had stories from all over the world.  More importantly, it had some really cool art as illustrations for the stories.  So, I ripped the pages out of the book with the intention to frame them on the stairwell wall.  We have a lot of frames in the house, mostly filled with pictures, so I wanted something a little different for the nursery decoration.  Well, after months of being moved around the house to avoid ruin, they are finally up.  And along with them is a frame, filled with chicken wire to hang photos, art projects, etc.  It's super cute and really easy.  You can check out the tutorial at Under the Sycamore.  It is one of my favorite blogs and I would totally want to hang out with her, if she didn't live in Oklahoma.

While we're on the topic of inspiration, I think I figured out what I am going to do about hanging clothes up in the boys' room.  Because our walls are only 48" before the ceiling, there isn't a closet.  I was hoping to find a wardrobe, but think they don't exist at 48" or less.  But it just so happened that Smile and Wave posted some photos of her children's wardrobes this past weekend.  Apparently, they don't have closets either.  As a make-shift wardrobe, she used a regular bookshelf to hang all of her son's clothes.  Her bookshelf/wardrobe is full size, but I totally plan on using a 3-shelf bookcase.

Here is the one of the photos she had on her blog, showing what her son's wardrobe looks like now.

And here is the one I found at Target and bought today.  I picked up two of them since they were on sale.  If I can fit both, I think I will keep both since they are only 24" wide, which doesn't allow for too much "closet" space.

Anyway, things seem to be coming along quite nicely.  I think I am going to try and find out second crib this week and start the repainting this weekend.  But that mildly depends on how my homework ends up going.

I guess that's all for now folks.  I am off to accomplish some of the many things on my to-do list.

Fall, My Long Lost Love

I really should be doing my homework right now; a psychology quiz or reading about the Age of U.S. Industrialism.  But I have found several distractions in the form of the Photobooth application on my computer and the spontaneous urge to blog.

What inspired all of these random distractions you ask?  Well, it's because today is a beautiful fall-weather day and I am in love with it.  A cozy flannel, and some chai tea is all I wanted on this school day.  You know, I also am in love with chai tea.  It's just so delicious.  I even went out and bought myself some Oregon Chai to make it at home.  It's a nice compliment to a wonderful day and cute clothes.

You see, fall is my absolute favorite season.  The only real downfall to it is that it is followed by winter.  But we can't fault fall for that, it didn't choose it's place in the year.

For my birthday last month, I received some money to spend on new clothes.  With the fall weather currently upon us, I was super excited to find some cute things.  I am a lover of flannel and cardigans, but I was hoping to pick up some new jeans and some long-sleeve tops (non-flannel or cardigan).  But so far, I have shopped without success.  It's such a sad thing to want some new fall clothes, have the money for it and just not find it.  I guess this means I am just going to have to spend more time shopping, which I wouldn't be opposed to :)

Well enough procrastinating, I am off to get my nose to the grind.

Happy Thursday!

One Shower Down

Well, I cannot believe that it's already September!  I won't lie, fall is my favorite season of all, particularly because of the great clothes and ability to layer.  When Eric and I first started dating, he would travel throughout the fall.  Not until our third year together, did we actually participate in fall activities together.  Needless to say, I am enjoying the mild weather we have been having.  I hear that over the next ten days, the highest temperature we are going to have is 73 degrees.  Woohoo!

Almost a week ago, I had my first baby shower.  It was with Eric's side of the family.  There weren't a ton of people there, but it was a good time nonetheless.  We are totally blessed by all of the gifts we received from everyone.  Over the long weekend, I was able to go through and separate everything into categories, like bedding, toys, blankets, clothes, etc.

 

See, you can see how I have organized the boys room.  You know me, I must do it now so I can stay on top of everything as I have more showers.

It's crazy as we receive more and more items.  It becomes more realistic and more surreal all at the same time.  But we are SUPER excited to put the finishing touches on the room and start the process of completing and adding furniture.

And Bella is really excited for the boys to come too!  She is a lover of soft items, so I must keep an eye on her.  She's eyeballing all the new blankets I have brought home.  As you can see below, you can't leave her alone with them.  She will slowly inch her way closer and closer.  She just so crazy, but cute!  She is just going to be so good with the boys.  I can't wait to see a dog and her boys :)

Quick Sunday Morning Update

This morning, we received some photos of the boys from our agent!  They are OH-SO cute and it's even harder to wait after seeing them. 

In other news, they haven't seen the doctor yet because there are now 27 children waiting to come home form the Congo.  Wow!  We just think that is totally awesome.

And there has been another step in the process of taking the boys out of the country.  But more on that soon.

Eric and I are off to Nantucket Bakery, to continue our Sunday morning tradition of bran muffins and french press coffee.  It shall be absolutely splendid on such a cool morning!  Happy Sunday!

Waiting to Hear from Our Agent

Today I emailed our agent since I haven't heard anything from her.  She left for the Congo two and a half weeks ago and I can only assume she is back by now.  I'm just so anxious to get an update about our boys.  And I also emailed her about their doctors appointments, which were supposed to take place this week or last week.  I also have some questions after reading some interesting information in their agency newsletter.

I'm crossing my fingers I hear from her soon.