Progress

I promise not to turn this into an all-baby, all-the-time blog, but I just had to report our progress. Apparently, finding out the baby's gender has spurred us into action. Since Friday, we have done the following:

1--We bought baby furniture. We had an idea of what we wanted if we were having a boy, and we knew what we wanted if we were having a girl. Anyway, our plan was to find a crib and order it, but the place had it in stock already, so we figured we might as well take it. It is now in a box in the garage. Because the crib is white and therefore pretty easy to match, we decided to buy the dresser (also to be used as a changing table) and a nightstand (to be used when Baby Girl is older and for us to use now as a table next to the yet-to-be-purchased rocker) at a regular furniture store at a much lower price. Even though the store had those in stock, we were able to have them put to the side in the warehouse so that we weren't completely overwhelmed with furniture! (Another plus--all of this was well within our "baby furniture budget." Yea!)

2--Darryl finished building the shed behind our fence, so we have begun moving stuff from the garage to the shed, and stuff from our office to the garage. The baby's room will be what is currently our office, but now that we are both on laptops, we really don't need an office anymore. We just need a place to put our filing cabinet and a few other necessities.

3--We have found some carpet. We have carpet just in the three bedrooms, and it looks terrible, thanks to our dog, Abby. (I'll just say she has come a long way in housetraining since we moved into the house.) We were pretty much planning to replace it anyway because we want to sell our house in a couple of years, but while we're cleaning out/moving things around, we figure we might as well do it now. (And yes, I realize the baby will make her own stains on the carpet, but the carpet we have selected is darker than what we have now AND is stain resistant. I also think we may be getting a rug for the baby's room, just to be safe.)

You probably didn't find this post fascinating, but I'm really proud of our progress so far. I have to confess that Darryl has done most of the work, but I'm pitching in where I can. Our goal is to have the office emptied this week--if we can accomplish that, we are in good shape. I really want to get as much done as possible before school starts again.