I taped all the paint cards up on the wall yesterday and “seaspray” won the baby room color contest.  At least that means I don’t have to labor over putting up tape for stripes!  Even in the morning light it wins.  The color is very, very subtle and the only way you really notice there is a hint of green is if you put it next to something actually white.  It should work really well no matter which gender kiddo we have.

Last evening Dave and I began working to consolidate our two desks into one here in the office/baby room.  We’ll be sharing my mother’s old roll top desk.  I’ve also got two big, tall wooden shelves that my father made back in maybe the late 70s.  Dave & I will share one for our office & craft supplies and then the other one will be for baby supplies.  We only have two closets in the whole house so storage space is at a premium here.

I wish I could describe how we’re dividing this room up into baby space and office space.  My mom came up with the floor plan while she was visiting.

Curtains still need to be figured out and made too.  This is the hottest room in the house during summer because the south sun just beams in here, even through the roller shades.  Replacing the windows eventually will help, but in the meantime curtains with heft to them will also help considerably.

Oh, and last night I showed Dave the paint cards to get his input too.  And sure enough he said of the paint cards that were sampling my idea of two shades of pale stripes that he couldn’t see a difference.  I laughed and then proceeded to show him what I’d written here on the blog yesterday about how he’d say exactly that phrase.  Impressively, he was able to pick “Seaspray” from amongst the four other paint cards though.

My mom sent me this list of everyone’s gifts from the baby shower we had back in IL over Easter.  All the gifts got mixed up trying to pile everything into the car for the trip back here.  I have the list now, on pretty paper so I can put it in the baby’s scrapbook too, and can begin working on thank you notes.  We really got some awesome gifts from people.  I’m tremendously blessed with lots of loving aunts, great aunts, cousins, sisters-in-laws and friends who might as well be sisters.

And my mom has already made some beautifully sewn items for the baby such as bibs, receiving blankets & a few clothing items.  Not to mention the baby equipment my parents have already purchased.  I think the baby “travel system” (car seat & stroller) they bought has got to be the absolute “Cadillac” of traveling systems.  Those things have every bell & whistle I could have imagined.

So this evening I might work on that project so that we can buy stamps and pop them off in the mail tomorrow.