Adventures in Nesting

It goes without saying that I'm a very very lucky girl. Not only does my husband humor my crazy nesting instincts, but we were able to enlist the help of some very amazing friends to assist along the way.

Saturday afternoon I went to Home Depot and was greeted by a popcorn machine and about 30 other pregnant ladies. Apparently I'm not alone in this nesting nonsense...

About 4 gallons of paint and an hour later, I'm on my way back home to... well... nap. I was super tired. I did get some sanding done on the chair rail, which took way less time than I had anticipated, but I had begun to let myself believe I was actually going to get things started on my own. Silly pregnant lady...

Milo was super exhausted too...

So cut to Sunday and after a full loaf of challah french toast, 1lb of bacon, another lb of strawberries, 2 bags of chips, 1 package of hot dogs (for the first time I was actually kind of sad I couldn't have hot dogs), 2 packages of cupcakes (mini ones!), 10 full working hours (not even kidding you) and 4 total adults + 1 super patient MiniJ, we had a fully painted living room (completed by me and J) and the start of our new mudroom storage bench and organization system (completed by E and K).

It's amazing what a coat (or 3 in the case of my chair rail) will do for a room!

Here's a before and after of the living room.

I've also done my best to never photograph the heat register in our living room because it was always SUCH an eyesore. Seriously, when is off-white and a wood grain ever a good idea for a heat register? Even in the 80's when this was likely installed? Either way, 2 cans of high heat spray paint and voila! It's still not pretty but it is much less of an eyesore than before.

Next weekend will find K & J back at our place with the ever patient miniJ in tow for another (hopefully shorter and less taxing) work day of painting the nursery (I am confident J and I can knock this out in an hour or 2) and a slightly more taxing day of finishing the mudroom build and then hanging my new living room accessories for the boys. Although, I'm sure when we finish painting the nursery J and I will start tackling the wooden entertainment system with white paint and then the newly finished mudroom as well. I swear, this will be a pretty and bright house by the time BabyG comes to town.

All of the hip pain I'm having today, which caused me to lose sleep for the first time ever, is totally worth it. I'm so much happier with how our home looks and I cannot wait to finish things up. Luckily I'm kind of a genius (I mean, I do have 2 brains right now) and made a massage appointment for today and another for next Monday. Of all the weeks for me to have excruciating hip pain, this isn't a crappy one. I don't have a ton of meetings, I have a massage today, yoga on Tues and Thurs and a chiropractor appointment on Friday after our second attempt to find out what BabyG is packing downstairs. I think I'll be in good shape for our next work day! Let's hope I'm in better shape AFTER our next work day than I am right now... Milo too..

Either way. Bring it on nesting instincts!