Nursery Inspriation

 Sorry I haven't been on and written a blog lately.  I have been very busy. I have two places that I am trying to get ready for baby. I have Matt's house and he is working around the clock and then working on redoing the kitchen floor and nursery floor. Then there is my house (with my grandad) ; and my bathroom was in reconstruction mode and a whole lot of organization needs to be done and cleaning. The plan is that yes Matt and I will be together with the baby as a family, but I only know his mom in Decatur. Matt works a lot (I am thankful he's a hard worker). So with this set up, it's probably safer that I am at home after baby is born for the first month or so. Since it's going to be a holiday baby, there are family members that are coming into town to stay the night on my side. I am not going to ask them to stay the night at a hotel during the holidays and my house has two extra rooms, Matt's doesn't. Anyway so I have been busy cleaning, organizing, getting things ready to sell and or have a yard sell and getting things we need at both places.

I am feeling a lot better. I guess the second trimester is the best time in pregnancy. I still have some bouts of sickness and my anxiety has been very bad. But over all things have gotten a lot better. I had back issues before this, so that has held me back a lot. The Sciatic nerves are bothering me bad along with the disc in my back, that was already giving me issues. That in and of itself has prevented me to clean and organize at a faster speed.

So now I have to figure out how we are going to fix up it's main room and obviously at a cheap price. We are on a budget, because I am not working right now and every penny has to be watched. I have been hitting the budget books and trying to learn how to coupon. If anyone can teach me how to coupon, I would totally love you forever!! My go to places to save have been Amazon, Walmart, Sam's Club, Etsy, Target, and yard sells.  I went to this upscale neighborhood that was having a huge yard sell. I found the cutest baby onsies and books. I am a firm believer in having books for baby. I was read too at a very early age (as soon as birth) and I grew a deep love for reading and excelled in it. Books are like a life saver in so many ways. In fact I have so many school books and books in general I am selling a lot to Amazon and making a bit of cash that way.

The first step was deciding on a color that would work for boy or girl. Matt didn't like yellow so we went with mint green. Personally I love mint green. I am currently trying to finish painting my bathroom this color. It's just a great in between color, that's refreshing. Our furniture is going to be white (our floor is a light colored laminate).  We have found the crib we want to order and I just found a really cute white dresser on craigs list... if we can contact and order in time. Here is a picture of it . It's super cute and for a great price. I wanted to find a longer dresser and paint it coral possibly (if it's a girl) but I guess since I have so many other paintings I am working on, that I don't have time to do all of that. I am going to show the two nursery pictures that I found on pinterest that I am going to work around. I am super excited to make and create most of the room myself. I think that makes it even more special. We are only going to buy the main pieces that we need : crib, dresesr, rug, and glider. If anyone knows places to find glider and dresser for cheap please send me some info. I could use to help with paintings too etc. Here is my inspiration for girl nursery: Obviously it won't look just like this, but similar. I plan on having my second mom to make the curtains like this. They are pretty simple to redo. The picture frames can be purchased on Etsy for a pretty decent price. Inspiration for boy nursery: The boy nursery might be a little different in general but this one is very cute with mint walls. I never thought of orange being cute with this color. As for curtains etc, I might just keep the yellow and white that is in the girls nursery. I might throw in blue and yellow colors in the boys nursery. I will know what I am having next week! July 9th! I am so excited to find out who this little person has developed into. I am still dealing with some negative old Southern attitudes about not being married. Actually had someone say "She needs to just get married and get divorced later, so the baby will have a name." Yeah I have heard it all. The thing that I take from all of this, is that people feel that not being married is the end of everything. They think that the baby will have no life and that marriage is always the answer. I have high hopes that God will work something out in all of this and I have no intentions of forcing something ( and making as some people are thinking about this situation.. another mistake). It truly appalls me that people still feel that babies are mistakes, if they are born outside of marriage. Christians are the ones that scream about abortion but then make unwed mothers feel awful that they are having the baby and trying to be responsible. It's truly sad that women have to feel so scared and rejected, that they feel they have no choice but to abort. A preacher said the other day this famous quote "there may be accidental parents, but there is never an accidental baby." I hope that more people in the South realize the guilt they place on women is often the guilt that leads to abortion. You can't have both! So stop being hypocritical. My attitude is, "it is what it is" now and I am going to do my very best and keep moving forward. I am truly excited and already love this little bundle and I hope that others can love it too. If not it has family that already adores it. :)