The Nursery

I forgot to mention in my last post that I appreciate those who read without posting comments too. :) I've been getting emails from people saying they are reading regularly, and that is awesome! I would be doing this even if no one read, because it's more of a personal journal than anything (that I will preserve for the babies someday), but if other people care to read along the way that's really cool too!

So this weekend we are making the first steps toward a nursery! We're not actually buying anything yet, but we have made a big decision: instead of using the small room we were planning to use for the nursery, I'm giving up my big home office, moving all my stuff to the smaller room, and officially designating my current home office room as the new nursery. This was all inspired by my recent visit to my friend K's house (Hi K! :). She has adorable 17 month old twins whom I got to hang out with for the first time at length (she and her husband adopted them from Russia a couple of months ago). It was my first experience ever being with twin babies. I helped feed, diaper, bathe and say good night. It was a lot of fun (and work)! K has a very large nursery and it gave me a good view of how much space two cribs will take up, and two (eventual) walking babies take up! I immediately started thinking that when the babies become mobile our nursery will be really tight. Sooooo...I stopped fighting the suppressed thought: I need to give up the big home office and make it the nursery. I think B had already been secretly thinking that because he immediately was like, "yup".

Tomorrow we are cleaning out the garage and organizing everything (it is a disaster in there and we want to make room for new baby stuff that will require storage). Then we will switch the office/nursery. I've never been excited for such a mundane task....it's SO exciting to feel like we are making progress toward a nursery!