Insta-February

insta-february

{2.5.17}

My mom came down on Friday and watched my kids for a long meeting & a doctor's appt, and then again that night so David and I could go on a date. My dad came down yesterday (Saturday) and spent the whole day helping me with my big mud-room-project that I've been dreaming about for months and months. I'm feeling so grateful this morning for parents who love and serve me so much and who are such wonderful grandparents. L&A thought it was the best weekend ever, and I'm likely to agree. #feelingblessed #andgrateful#mymudroomisgoingtobeamazing

{2.9.17}

Took the garbage cans out to the street this morning and these two littles escaped the house and thoroughly enjoyed their freedom (all 2 minutes of it). Now that it's warmed up even a little bit more, they are running around the backyard. We are all so so so excited for spring! #groundhogsaidsixmoreweeksofwinter#notatmyhouse #ihope #spring!

{2.17.17}

How can you expect a pregnant mama to walk past this goodness? Temptation in its purest, sugar-filled, on sale, form. Last night as I was eating chips and queso, chocolate cake, AND Italian ice pops I told David that I only have a few weeks of having an excuse to eat that way and I need to take advantage of it. I know I'm supposed to eat healthy and we've moved past the "eating for two" thing. But you guys...Just... candy. #givemeallthesugar (for the record, I didn't actually buy any of this candy. I took a picture and I'm publicly posting about it as a coping mechanism, ha.)

{2.21.17} 

Nesting is a real thing people. This is the week that baby prep has hit full force. So many fun projects are coming together and I'm feeling great about it. Also, Target.

{2.22.17}

My mudroom! I feel like I go years (literally) trying to figure out what I want to do with a space and then as soon as I figure it out I just can't let it go until the picture in my head turns into a reality. I'm giddy about how perfectly this matches the picture I had in my mind. #nesting#functionality #givemeallthehooks Huge shout-out to my dad for actually making this happen. And to @davidpeaden for buying the hooks for me for Christmas and for being so patient with my "big ideas".

{2.22.17} 

Before picture: Bare, bare, bare. So much unused potential. I had my garbage cans in the corner and the key hook on the wall but everything else was exactly as the builder left it. It was a constant disaster of coats and bags and shoes all over each other. See picture below for the After picture!

{2.22.17}

A few other home updates that I've been working to finish instead of... You know... packing a hospital bag or whatever. My mainfloor (powder) bathroom. After my target trip this week I switched out a few items that had been poached from elsewhere in the house and finally found the perfect rug and I'm finally breathing a sigh because it's truly finished! (Not taking new pictures though because there are currently plastic penguins swimming in the sink among other things and I don't want to clean it up. 😳) Some of my favorite things: the peel and stick wood wall, the shelves (obviously!) which were made by the talented @carissamiss, the glass shelf by the sink, the Daniel Tiger Print. Okay. I love it all. #lifelessonsfromdanieltiger#nowtofigureouthowtokeepmyhandtowelsoffthefloor

{2.22.17}

Window seat update: almost all the shelves are filled. I still have to sew a seat cushion, but that's not happening anytime soon. I tried to be very intentional about the things we purchased and used here. I tend to want to finish projects quickly and frugally and sometimes it end up getting thrown together with pieces I don't love. But I really wanted to LOVE this area. It's taken over six months but I feel like it has filled out well and I truly do love it.

{2.22.17}

Annnnnnddddd.... (Seriously sorry to be spamming your feeds this morning!) A sneak peek at the nursery. Half of it anyway. This big wall has been the last blank thing in this room and I just haven't been able to figure out how to fill it. But I love the way it turned out. Decorating a nursery is way easier when the baby is the same gender as the baby before! Ha. I'm planning to print newborn pictures after he gets here to hang on the string. Whew! Now just to clean all of my baseboards and my house will be ready for this little man to come join us. (Am I the only one that gets crazy bugged by dirty walls and baseboards while pregnant? I swear, I never notice it at all regularly and then all the sudden I notice every spot and dirty area. This must be how regular people live.) #overgramming #sorrynotsorry#butreallykindofsorry #justsoexcited#tminus2weeks

{2.27.17}

Snow City out there today. Took Lydia to preschool on the back roads so I didn't have to drive on the freeway and now cuddled up on the couch watching some Daniel Tiger with my boy. I think he knows that the baby will be here soon, mostly because of the 3.5 hours he's been awake he's been out of control sobbing for at least two of them. It's breaking my heart to have him be so sad, but I'm not even sure that he knows why he's crying. (I mean things like: not enough yogurt, the wrong sippy cup, David trying to pick him up. Anything sets him off and he can't calm down.) I think today is going to be a snuggle day. I wish I'd kept Lydia home today so we wouldn't have to go back out and she would be here with us now. #snowday #danieltigerday