Nursery Progress

27 weeks, 5 days

Saturday night, we accomplished quite a bit of work on the nursery. Our crib has been here a few weeks now, laying on the floor of our guest room still in the box. We didn't need to set it up yet so that whole room has been a disaster area. I knew we would eventually be purging and organizing its contents so it hasn't been touched for a while.

Well, this week I had pretty much had enough and decided we might as well get started. It was a rare weekend that was spent not traveling so I felt like we needed to take advantage of that and get a head start. Plus, I'm a planner (I feel like I say that every week.) so these projects are fuel to my fire.

This is what the room looked like before.

Random paperwork and receipts everywhere. Probably 20 bucks in change in Joe's caddy. Crib box taking up all the room on the floor. Junk.


Joe's shotgun also hanging out on the floor. A bunch of casings and other hunting crap. You can't really see it but there is a big IKEA bag in the corner with stuff we bought probably a year ago that is being saved for the house. More junk.



A bunch of my sweaters from winter that I emptied from my drawers to make room for more maternity clothes. Our new parent booklet for all our childbirth classes. An almost empty plastic drawer bin that was just taking up space. Even more junk.


The tall bookshelf that you see in picture #2 has been relocated to the living room. It matches all our other furniture and there is enough room for it, thankfully. Unfortunately, we had to figure out what to do with the rest of the stuff. All our files were consolidated into one closed filing system that we had sitting empty in the closet. The plastic drawer system was stored as well as all the gun supplies and an extra queen bed frame we had hidden under the futon. The phone caddy and printer was transferred to the dresser in our bedroom. All the other smaller items were also put in storage or tossed. That was the easy part.

The rest of the furniture was not so easy. The desk had to go. If you know me well, you can guess that my preference would be to just pitch it. We have a nice big dumpster a few feet away from our door that it would fit in nicely.

See, the problem is we don't have any space for it. Our storage is filled to the brim so it couldn't go in there and otherwise, there is no extra space to hold it. There is a pretty slim chance that we will use it in the new house and to be honest, I think one of us has sat in it a total of 5 times since we got it 3 years ago. BUT, Joe doesn't like to just get rid of stuff that is still useful. I totally understand but not if it makes more work for us. I gave him a deadline of Aug 7th, when our dresser comes in, to decide what he wants to do with it.

That left the futon.

This was something that I would like to keep. It can be used easily in the basement at the new place but our only option was then to keep it in the nursery. This is where it got even trickier. The room is tiny. We needed to fit a crib, dresser and this huge futon. We're not even sure if the space planning we have chosen with work until the dresser comes in but hopefully it does. Did I mention this week yet that we need a new place to live?

The futon has been moved to under the windows where the desk was originally. (Side note: this room is so tiny I could hardly take pictures. I mentioned this to Joe and his first reaction was "no, I am not getting you a fisheye lens." Ha! I wasn't even hinting at that but he knows me so well!)


Crib is almost complete!


The baby is not short on sleeping arrangements in this place though, that's for sure.




In other sorta nursery news, our glider has been ordered. Unfortunately, we were given a 10-12 week process period until it comes in so it's gonna take a while. As you can probably assume, we won't have room for it in the nursery, so it will go in the living room downstairs. I'm due in 12 weeks & 2 days, so fingers crossed that it comes within the 12 week margin they gave us so we don't have to deal with that and a newborn at the same time.

It's a glider and recliner combo.


Stay tuned as progress continues....