WTTW: Preparing the house for our baby!
A weekly hello and welcome to the week :)
Hello & happy Monday!
It’s an unwritten rule in our house that summer doesn’t end until the 29th September, once Alex’s birthday has come and gone. Then and only then can we turn the heating on or start making pies and roasts on the reg. But even the soon-to-be birthday boy recently admitted, it’s started to feel autumnal early this year, what with the torrential rain and telly FINALLY getting good again (Slow Horses is back, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has started, Strictly begins again this weekend!). And for us, this year, the transition from warm-ish to cold seasons marks an even bigger call to hunker down than usual. We found out we were having a baby back in March, which made the arrival of him, in our minds, seem so far away, all the way at the end of the year, in winter, near Christmas, we hadn’t even got to Easter yet. And then, just like that, we’re on the trajectory to the most wonderful time of the year - eek! It’s a reminder we’ll be slowing down, yes, but also a bit of a kick up the bum that there’s so much to do BB (Before Baby).
On Saturday, IKEA told us they’d deliver a lot of the furniture we’d well-intentioned-ly ordered as part of Operation Get Ready For Baby between 7am and 7pm on Saturday. So we scurried out the door at silly o’ clock to walk Hugh and have some brekkie in town before returning to our waiting post, resigned to spending the rest of our downtime arguing over who’s got the Allen key, but it never turned up. HOPEFULLY it comes today and we can start making some proper progress with the Tetris situation that is our home right now. Once I’ve got the new rug down and storage in my (now wallpapered!! Pics below!) office, all the boxes can come out of what will become our guest bedroom (the green room, which I’ve now got curtains up in!! Also pictured below!), so we can pull up the carpets and put the finishing touches to that, so we can then move the spare bed out of what will become the nursery, and then pull up the carpet, paint the walls, decorate and fill the nursery. All in the next few weeks. Which may be small fry for most people but we’ve been here for going on two years and have two half-finished rooms - ooh and an outdoor office, which someone else built for us but still! - to show for it.