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Slow and steady
May. 21st, 2009 04:06 pmThe house is slowly coming together. This morning I finally hung the last two blinds I purchased six months ago, so now every bedroom has a blind. That should help a lot with our AC bill this summer. The baby's room felt like it dropped a few degrees within a half hour of me putting it up. Also hung the curtain rod in the baby's room, so all I need now is the actual curtain to be made. I've purchased the black-out fabric and I already had the pretty fabric, so as soon as I get off the couch and have a shower I'll put it all together and be done with that room as much as I can be for now. Still waiting on Ikea to get that crib back in stock, and we do have a bit of art/mirrors we might hang over the weekend, but that's no biggie. No curtain rod yet in the "box room" as we still don't really have a need/use for that space, so I don't want to make any decorating decisions beyond the blind. Also vacuumed the baby's room, upstairs hallway and game room, so the house is looking a little better than it did this morning. Have I mentioned how much I hate the tedious repetitiveness of housecleaning?
Earlier this week I got the chest of drawers all refinished, lugged it up to the baby's room and set it in place. Then spent a morning ripping open all the packages of baby stuff, filling drawers, setting out the changing pad, making the day bed and putting sheets on the crib mattress so I could get an idea how the room would look when it's done. So far I'm liking it a lot. Very refreshing with all the green. Gender neutral without being yellow, which is a colour I have always loathed. Now I'm left wondering... do I leave everything all neatly put away like it is and just pull it out and use it as it's needed, or should I be pre-washing all the onesies and sheets and stuff?
Today I tested my new Moby wrap on Anna beagle. She was, as always, very tolerant. I was able to get up and walk around a bit with her strapped to me. Beagle is a bit different from baby, so I'm still not sure if I can do this with a child, but I'm hopeful. From Anna, I got face licks for my trouble. When Jason gets home we might do a repeat performance so I can capture it in photos - heh.
This weekend is a long weekend, but I'm hoping that I won't have to tie Jason to the house with all kinds of boring housework, so I'm trying to get some stuff accomplished before the weekend hits. That said, there are some things that need to be done that I will need his help with.
( to do list )
Not the smallest list ever, but not an insurmountable mountain of stuff either. Hopefully I can get some of it out of the way tonight as dinner is just leftovers and tackle a good amount of it tomorrow while Jason is at work so we can actually enjoy some of the weekend. Not that I have any idea what we want to do mind you. I'm thinking the beagles could certainly use some walks anyway.
Earlier this week I got the chest of drawers all refinished, lugged it up to the baby's room and set it in place. Then spent a morning ripping open all the packages of baby stuff, filling drawers, setting out the changing pad, making the day bed and putting sheets on the crib mattress so I could get an idea how the room would look when it's done. So far I'm liking it a lot. Very refreshing with all the green. Gender neutral without being yellow, which is a colour I have always loathed. Now I'm left wondering... do I leave everything all neatly put away like it is and just pull it out and use it as it's needed, or should I be pre-washing all the onesies and sheets and stuff?
Today I tested my new Moby wrap on Anna beagle. She was, as always, very tolerant. I was able to get up and walk around a bit with her strapped to me. Beagle is a bit different from baby, so I'm still not sure if I can do this with a child, but I'm hopeful. From Anna, I got face licks for my trouble. When Jason gets home we might do a repeat performance so I can capture it in photos - heh.
This weekend is a long weekend, but I'm hoping that I won't have to tie Jason to the house with all kinds of boring housework, so I'm trying to get some stuff accomplished before the weekend hits. That said, there are some things that need to be done that I will need his help with.
( to do list )
Not the smallest list ever, but not an insurmountable mountain of stuff either. Hopefully I can get some of it out of the way tonight as dinner is just leftovers and tackle a good amount of it tomorrow while Jason is at work so we can actually enjoy some of the weekend. Not that I have any idea what we want to do mind you. I'm thinking the beagles could certainly use some walks anyway.
