The Nursery

It's been a long hard road for Erin and I... no I'm not talking about the pregnancy, that's a long hard road for Erin, I've got it easy. No, I'm talking about the nursery. A year ago we were calling it the "office", before we got married it was the second bedroom for my occasional roommates. Regardless of what it's been called, it could always only be described as a disaster. None of my roommates were very clean, and immediately after the last roommate left (about a month before Erin and I got married) we started filling it up with all of our accrued junk... and more junk, and more junk. And that junk sat there, occasionally getting moved into different semi-organized piles, but mostly just forcing us to tell any company to not even think about opening that door.

Those days are over now, thankfully. Ever since we found out Erin was expecting, we've been chiseling away little by little at the mess that it was. The cleaner the room got, the more likely we were to call it the "nursery" rather than the "office". And finally a few months ago the room was clean enough to not only allow guests to see the room, but to actually allow those staying a night or two to sleep in there.

But today was a special milestone in the history of the nursery... Erin finished one of the big projects. We aren't doing too much, since it is a rental and since we don't really know exactly how long we'll be in this apartment, but we had to decorate at least a little. Erin is amazing and was willing to make all of the bedding and curtains for the room, rather than picking out a set at a store. She's been working for quite a while on the different pieces, but today finished the bumper. She's still planning to reupholster the glider/ottoman, but other than that she's done. She made yellow striped curtains, a green striped crib-skirt (with white trim), yellow hand-print sheets (along with a few other coordinating sheets as backups), and a green foot-print bumper (again with white trim). I think it looks fantastic, and it's exciting to hit this milestone and just know that we're that much closer to having our little Aeriana here with us.







Oh, and we are so excited for Aeriana's cousin that Erin made a blanket for him to match Aeriana's.

Labels: baby, Erin, family, pictures

posted by Brett at 6:15 PM