28 weeks, 0 days

Third trimester here we come! For all of you who actually stay up to date on the blog sorry I have fallen behind again. It has been a busy couple of weeks. After the explosion of baby items that consumed our main living area, the hubby and I have been working like crazy to finish the baby room and get the house in a tidy order. Although I would like to say I inherited my mother’s ability to organize, straighten-up and keep the model-esque looking house……I can’t. Michael and I bought our house almost three years ago and still had boxes to unpack. Slowly but surely we painted and redid the dog room, the office and our bedroom. But each time we seem to get everything in order, I realized all we managed to do is Crap-Shift. That’s right….move crap from one room to the next. While we always love having company, we have a tendency to throw everything in an empty bedroom or closet so the house always “looked” nice but wanted to bust out of the seams. And oh boy were we good at this method of cleaning!! But with Sprout growing and getting closer to joining our family, we have been working our tails off to get rid of the crap and really clean and organize the house. And if I say so myself…..we’ve done a heck of a good job. The garage may not fit a car in it for a while, but everything in there is either in bins for storage (which will go on the large shelves we bought to surround the garage walls but still sit unassembled due to lack of work space) or is part of a huge garage sale pile. Hopefully we can have a massive garage sale in the upcoming weekend - - weather permitting - - that will get the last of our crap out of the house for good!

Michael finished putting together the crib, wall hangings, blinds and valance this week finishing off the perfect baby room this week. We’re so excited to have her come and see her beautifully clean room that was delicately decorated just for her. Here are some photos to share: